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powder
noun
a powdered narcotic, usually heroin or cocaine US- There’s people down here, Blacks pushing the powder and hustling the chicks, and using their own people to pad their damned pockets. — Donald Goines, Inner City Hoodlum, p. 23, 1975
- Powder! What do they mean “powder”? Gunpowder, curry powder, cocaine? I mean, what’s on their minds? — Ben Elton and Rik Mayall, The Young Ones, 8 May 1984
- “ Can you get petty cash?” [...] “Some. Why?” “Sort us some powder?” — Kevin Sampson, Powder, p. 59, 1999
- It’s-a powders yew want, like. Step on em a few times, yewer laughin. — Niall Griffiths, Sheepshagger, p. 73, 2001
- “ But if it’s powder I want every grain of it.” Powder, of course, meaning cocaine and heroin; Class A. — Duncan MacLaughlin, The Filth, p. 188, 2002
- “ He’s trying to get 2 ounces of powder,” a caller named Truck told Bellamy[.] — Orlando Sentinel, p. B2, 17 August 2002
▶ take a powder- to leave US, 1934
- First Mrs. Hitchcock packed up and took a powder, and there was hell to pay. — Mezz Mezzrow, Really the Blues, p. 66, 1946
- Aren’t you glad now we didn’t take a powder? — Irving Shulman, The Amboy Dukes, p. 88, 1947
- Well, when the cuckoo quacks a dozen she takes a fast powder but loses a slipper. — Haenigsen, Jive’s Like That, 1947
- He had been five minutes away from being killed and he was taking a quick-acting powder. — Mickey Spillane, Kiss Me Deadly, p. 168, 1952
- The vine[rumour-mill] said you’re Lancaster the guy who took a powder thirteen years ago. — Iceberg Slim (Robert Beck), Pimp, p. 299, 1969
- to inhale or ingest powdered drugs US
- — Ralph de Sola, Crime Dictionary, p. 148, 1982
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