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charge noun- an intoxicated sensation, emotional or narcotic UK
- She was scarcely out with the needle when the charge set in. — George Mandel, Flee the Angry Strangers, p. 379, 1952
- I gets a big charge going in there with these two birds[.] — John Peter Jones, Feather Pluckers, p. 42–42, 1964
- — Angela Devlin, Prison Patter, p. 36, 1996
- intense excitement US
- Ooh man! This is a great charge — William “Lord” Buckley, Martin’s Horse, 1960
- marijuana US
From an earlier sense meaning “drugs in general;” it contains a charge–produces a KICK- I got all the charge I wanted, the good stuff, and we had another arrangement. — Hal Ellson, Duke, p. 16, 1949
- “Do you have any charge? Do you Diane? Dincher?” as he sat at her sister’s elbow. “Do you have any hemp you could leave me?” — George Mandel, Flee the Angry Strangers, p. 259, 1952
- “This is really great charge. The best I know.” — Chandler Brossard, Who Walks in Darkness, p. 11, 1952
- Not least amongst the geezers I met in the nick are the geezers who are doing a bit of bird for smokeing [sic] charge[.] — Frank Norman, Bang To Rights, p. 142, 1958
- She had her charge but no place to take it. — Willard Motley, Let No Man Write My Epitaph, p. 147, 1958
- Some were quietly trying to borrow money from other guests while some became intoxicated as others smoked “charge” or ate pigs feet in the kitchen at $1.10 apiece. — Dan Burley, Diggeth Thou?, p. 45–46, 1959
- He mean bring a few sticks of it out to the field, you see, that’s what he mean by that. He call it “charge,” too. — Terry Southern, Red-Dirt Marijuana and Other Tastes, 1967
- — Mike Haskins, Drugs, p. 287, 2003
- an injection of a drug US
- She applied the needle herself, jabbed quickly and gasped, then pumped the charge and drew it back with her blood[.] — George Mandel, Flee the Angry Strangers, p. 379, 1952
- “Why don’t you let me get my charge from you?” — Herbert Simmons, Corner Boy, p. 56, 1957
- If he tried mainlining with the sugar in the capsule he’d find out in a hurry he had nothing going for him and would do a crazy dance to get a charge. — Mickey Spillane, Return of the Hood, p. 104, 1964
- an alcoholic drink AUSTRALIA
- Wait a sec, till we get another charge. — John O’Grady, It’s Your Shout, Mate!, p. 69, 1972
- prison contraband secreted in a prisoner’s rectum NEW ZEALAND
- — Harry Orsman, A Dictionary of Modern New Zealand Slang, p. 27, 1999
- a person arrested and held in charge UK
- — G.F. Newman, Sir, You Bastard, 1970
- a Charge Nurse, the nurse in charge of a ward, especially if male UK
Often after “the.”
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