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key
noun- a kilogram US, 1966
From the first syllable of “kilogram”; the one unit of the metric system that at least some Americans have grasped. - Not that it’s small in the Hight, where grass is available in five-hundred-kilogram lots (2.2 pounds per kilo, or "key" as they say in the trade). — Nicholas Von Hoffman, We Are The People Our Parents Warned Us Against, p. 31, 1967
- It was nothing real heavy though the price of a key in one-thousand-ton lots went from fifty to seventy-five dollars and drove the street price in the U.S. from one hundred to two hundred dollars per single key. — Abbie Hoffman, Woodstock Nation, pp. 68–69, 1969
- Coming in to Los Angeles / Bringing in a couple of keys / Don’t touch my bags if you please / Mister Customs Man — Arlo Guthrie, Coming in to Los Angeles, 1969
- At the beginning we bought our keys from Sandra Sandusky, one of the biggest dealers on the Lower East Side. — Ann Fettamen, Trashing, pp. 34–35, 1970
- What crew brought in fifty keys. — Edwin Torres, Carlito’s Way, p. 49, 1975
- He [the killer] is a big time dealer now with keys [kilograms[ and shit, and he shot my uncle seven times. — Terry Williams, The Cocaine Kids, p. 33, 1989
- It’s like this: I call him up, tell him I got half a key of quality stuff. — Boogie Nights, 1997
- Fifteen years for having a key of charlie in your car. Eight years for selling some wraps. — Dave Courtney, Raving Lunacy, 2000
- They’re flying in from New York tomorrow, and each is carrying one key (kilo) of coke. — Duncan MacLaughlin, The Filth, p. 189, 2002
- the declaration, under the Habitual Criminals Act, that one is a habitual criminal; an indefinite sentence under this act AUSTRALIA, 1944
The joke being that one is given the key to let oneself in and out. - — Jim Ramsay, Cop It Sweet!, p. 52, 1977
- a prison officer US, 1934
Often “keys”, even in the singular. - — Angela Devlin, Prison Patter, p. 68, 1996
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