beaming up
Dematerializing for travel
Beaming up refers to teleportation, especially the instant matter transport depicted in *Star Trek*: Beam me up, Scotty.
The phrase has become shorthand for any sudden disappearance or departure: I'm beaming up—see you tomorrow.
In drug slang, beaming up means getting high, particularly on crack cocaine.
- teleportationInstantaneous displacement across space
- Star TrekSpacefaring TV franchise
- ScottyDiminutive given name
- rayNarrow light emission
- lightVisible electromagnetic radiation
golden light · flash · transporter · glow · shimmer · bright smile · vanish · dissolve · fade · rematerialize · Spock · transporter room · elevation · Captain Kirk · zap · USS Enterprise · transcendence · awakening
arrival vs. departure
beaming upmaterializing
Becoming real or visible
rematerializing · appearing · solidifying · reconstituting · arriving