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K noun- one thousand dollars; one thousand pounds US, 1965
Also spelt “kay”. - Just his luck to have them discover he was carrying twenty K and cut his throat. — Joseph Wambaugh, The Black Marble, p. 380, 1978
- For a K note and two grams of righteous blow you can call me anything short of Sambo. — James Ellroy, Because the Night, p. 355, 1984
- Come on, my brother. God is with you, right? Fourteen kay. — New Jack City, 1990
- I think I cleared 15K that night, after expenses. — Val McDermid, Keeping on the Right Side of the Law, p. 181, 1999
- I’ve got in the case two kilos of top quality, very pukka, recently imported, cocaine. It’s about forty kay or twelve years’ worth, depending how you look at it[.] — J.J. Connolly, Layer Cake, p. 1, 2000
- "It’s all there," he said. "Fifty K in fives, tens and twenties. All used bills." — Kinky Friedman, Steppin’ on a Rainbow, p. 103, 2001
- a kilometre UK
- Another k and there’s a parking place on the right. — Chris Ryan, Stand By, Stand By, p. 84, 1996
- a kilogram, especially of an illegal drug US
- I know people who wanta get rid of some Ks, you dig? — Vernon E. Smith, The Jones Men, p. 167, 1974
- The police opened it and found 4K of Charlie! — Dave Courtney, Raving Lunacy, p. 183, 2000
- the recreational drug ketamine US
Ketamine hydrochloride is an anaesthetic used recreationally for its hallucinogenic properties. - It is widely known that drugs like cocaine, the amphetamine deriva-tive Ecstasy, and ketamine, an anesthetic often called "K," have become an integral part of the Morning Party[.] — New York Times, p. 22, 17 August 1996
- K is a displacer–you are outside of your head, and everything, everything is new. — James St. James, Party Monster, p. 10, 1999
- Too much K (100g) can send you plummeting into a "K-Hole" where the brain seems to detach itself from the body. — Sky Magazine, p. 78, July 2001
- leaves of catha edulis, a stimulant also called “qat”, originating in the Horn of Africa and the Arabian peninsula, legally available in the UK and similar to amphetamine in effect when chewed UK
Also known as “khat” and “kat”. - — Angela Devlin, Prison Patter, p. 67, 1996
- in a deck of cards, a king US
- — Michael Dalton, Blackjack, p. 59, 1991
- a knighthood UK, 1961
Used by civil servants; suggestive of a casual familiarity with the honour. - I understand that there is a phrase in the upper echelons of Whitehall known as Knight-starvation: used derogatively about lesser beings hungry for their K’s. — The Guardian, 23 September 1982
- oral sex on a woman performed according to the strictures of the “Kivin Method” US
- And while you’re giving good K, you’ll need to place your fingertips on her perineum[.] — Drugs An Adult Guide, p. 108, December 2001
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