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connection
noun- a drug dealer; a drug deal US, 1928
- “I need a jolt,” one addict might remark. “I gotta see my connection.” — William J. Spillard and Pence James, Needle in a Haystack, p. 148, 1945
- Then my supply ran out and my connection got a ship. — John Clellon Holmes, Go, p. 47, 1952
- “Then you don’t get my business, either,” Angel said. “We got other connections.” — Hal Ellson, The Golden Spike, p. 30, 1952
- I drank all day in a wild poolhall-bar-restaurant-saloon two-part joint, also got burned for a fin (Mexican, 5 pesos, 60 cents) by a connection. — Jack Kerouac, Letter to Neal and Carolyn Cassady, p. 359, 27 May 1952
- Why don’t we go uptown? I know several good connections we can probably catch about now. — William Burroughs, Junkie, p. 29, 1953
- Couldn’t you make a connection last night? — John D. McDonald, The Neon Jungle, p. 71, 1953
- The connection came in and motioned me to the cellar toilet[.] — Jack Kerouac, On the Road, p. 88, 1957
- I didn’t tell Casanova anything. Nothing about you and Red, although they seem to have plenty of information at their disposal. And nothing at all about our connection. — Ross Russell, The Sound, p. 238, 1961
- “Knock three times, then once, then twice.” “All that? He must be a connection.” — Chester Himes, Cotton Comes to Harlem, p. 38, 1965
- As a matter of fact, he was selling horse, and he wanted to know if I wanted to sell some. He had a connection for me. — Claude Brown, Manchild in the Promised Land, p. 153, 1965
- I’d better go see my connection. — Piri Thomas, Down These Mean Streets, p. 203, 1967
- He also explained how hard it was for Eastern cats to cop and spoke of the big bread I could make if I could find a connection. — Babs Gonzales, I Paid My Dues, p. 26, 1967
- THE CONNECTION sniffs powder, cocks his head and smiles. — Peter Fonda, Easy Rider, p. 47, 1969
- I saw her today at the reception / A glass of wine in her hand / I knew she was gonna meet her connection / At her feet was a footloose man — Rolling Stones, You Can’t Always Get What You Want, 1969
- I had to make a connection for sleeping pills. Now! — Iceberg Silm (Robert Beck), Trick Baby, p. 267, 1969
- Is there a connection around, man? I have to cop. I’m alright, but my old lady is getting sick. — Herbert Huncke, The Evening Sun Turned Crimson, p. 72, 1980
- a sexual partner US
- — American Speech, p. 19, Spring 1985: “The language of singles bars”
- a friend SOUTH AFRICA
- Jimmy’s my big connection bru. We surf together every day. — Surfrikan Slang, 2004
- It’s clear they are good mates or, to use street slang, “connections.” [Reporting from Auckland]. — Sunday Tribune (South Africa), p. Sport 26, 15 April 2007
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