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M noun- morphine US, 1914
- More specifically, it was classified as M, C, and H–Mary, Charlie, and Harry–which stood for morphine, cocaine, and heroin. — William J. Spillard and Pence James, Needle in a Haystack, pp. 147–148, 1945
- Heroin got the drive awright–but there’s not a tingle to a ton–you got to get M to get that tingle-tingle. — Nelson Algren, The Man With The Golden Arm [The Howard Marks Book of Dope Stories], p. 45, 1949
- Then his money had run out, those few connections who might advance him a little “M” had vanished or been arrested[.] — John Clellon Holmes, Go, p. 198, 1952
- I saw him pack in his moldy room where he’d shot M all this time. — Jack Kerouac, Letter to John Clellon Holmes, p. 389, 9 December 1952
- During the early part of the war, imports of H were virtually cut off and the only junk available was prescription M. — William Burroughs, Junkie, p. 40, 1953
- If I use at all I want the best. I want to smoke O or use good pure M or H. — William Burroughs, Letters to Allen Ginsberg 1953–1957, p. 105, 1 August 1955
- That night, Marylou took everything in the books; she took tea, goofballs, benny, liquor, and even asked Old Bull for a shot of M[.] — Jack Kerouac, On the Road, p. 148, 1957
- It’s not like H or M. Nothing like that! — Ross Russell, The Sound, p. 22, 1961
- — Angela Devlin, Prison Patter, p. 74, 1996
- marijuana US, 1955
Extended from the previous sense. - Their Nazi insignia, patches with the letter M signifying use of marijuana[.] — Arthur Blessitt, Turned On to Jesus, p. 187, 1971
- — Mike Haskins, Drugs, p. 288, 2003
- an MBE (Member of the Order of the British Empire) UK, 1961
Used by civil servants, suggestive of a casual familiarity with the honour. - the Mexican Mafia, a Mexican-American prison gang US
- The “M” (or “eme,” originally meaning “Mafia” but soon to be glorified as “El Mejicano Encarcelado”) accepted this as a challenge and stepped up their attacks. — Joan W. Moore, Homeboys, p. 115, 1978
- Memphis US
- Born and raised in the M, Tennessee. — Hustle and Flow, 2004
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