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horse noun- heroin US, 1950
- Paddy’s on Horse, that don’ mean I got to. — George Mandel, Flee the Angry Strangers, p. 26, 1948
- Somebody is pushing horse and tea again. — John D. McDonald, The Neon Jungle, p. 32, 1953
- “As long as Red gets pure Horse and enough of it he can keep it under control,” Hassan assured him. — Ross Russell, The Sound, p. 143, 1961
- Do you want this horse for yourself? — Douglas Rutherford, The Creeping Flesh, p. 102, 1963
- He was a cheap hood from the east side who did errands for the Stipetto brothers and lived off the white Horse he peddled around the neighborhood. — Mickey Spillane, Return of the Hood, p. 88, 1964
- Horse was a new thing, not only in our neighborhood but in Brooklyn, the Bronx, and everyplace I went, uptown and downtown. It was like horse had just taken over. — Claude Brown, Manchild in the Promised Land, p. 103, 1965
- He was sitting on the small of her back as he opened the box. Inside was a blycerin suppository filled with Motherball’s uncut horse. — Richard Farina, Been Down So Long, p. 266, 1966
- Ain’t nothing a greater blast than “horse.” It’s your privilege to wake up slow if you want. “Horse” is what puts the ice in a pimp’s game. — Iceberg Slim (Robert Beck), Pimp, p. 131, 1969
- I seen the horse play with them junkies like a cat with a rubber mouse. — Edwin Torres, Carlito’s Way, p. 11, 1975
- He thought it was boss when he shot that horse / He thought he was being hip. — Dennis Wepman et al., The Life, p. 97, 1976
- Dylanologist A. J. Weberman insists that every time Dylan writes about horses, it is an allusion to heroin[.] — Jay Saporita, Pourin’ It All Out, p. 61, 1980
- Elise asked me if I had any horse and Ed said he would like just a small taste of the amphets. — Herbert Huncke, The Evening Sun Turned Crimson, 1980
- For the horse you’ve grown much fonder / Than for me[.] — Alice in Chains, God Smack, 1992
- Caleb is getting more and more excited. High as a kite if truth were told. The wonderful feeling of Horse in his head. — Jack Allen, When the Whistle Blows, p. 142, 2000
- a casual girlfriend UK
Probably from a play on “whores”. - — Wilfred Granville, A Dictionary of Sailors’ Slang, 1962
- a prostitute US
An evolution of the STABLE - But not for that new horse. I wouldn’t give her one of my tricks if she stood on her head. — John M. Murtagh and Sara Harris, Cast the First Stone, p. 114, 1957
- a prostitute’s customer SOUTH AFRICA, 1946
Used by prostitutes. - a large man US
- — Marcus Hanna Boulware, Jive and Slang of Students in Negro Colleges, 1947
- an affectionate male term of address IRELAND
- Howiya goin horse? Are ye well? — Ruane Donal, Tales in a Rearview Mirror, p. 187, 2003
- in circus and carnival usage, one thousand dollars US
- — Don Wilmeth, The Language of American Popular Entertainment, p. 134, 1981
- a person who smuggles contraband into prison US
- — Maledicta, p. 264, Summer/Winter 1981: “By its slang, ye shall know it: the pessimism of prison life”
- in bar dice games, a turn of rolling the dice US
- Boss is won by the player who wins two of three horses (hands). — Gil Jacobs, The World’s Best Dice Games, p. 196, 1976
- a poker player with a reputation for stinginess US
- — George Percy, The Language of Poker, p. 45, 1988
- a Ford Mustang car US
- — Lanie Dills, The Official CB Slanguage Language Dictionary, p. 40, 1976
- in television and film-making, a stand that holds film reels while the film is fed through a viewer US
- — Ralph S. Singleton, Filmaker’s Dictionary, p. 82, 1990
- a knife or improvised sharp instrument US
- — Kenn “Naz” Young, Naz’s Underground Dictionary, p. 37, 1973
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