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weight
noun- large quantities of a drug US
- I wasn’t up there to buy weight, so-called, ounces. — Jeremy Larner and Ralph Tefferteller, The Addict in the Street, p. 111, 1964
- He said that these were the people into all the cocaine weight and that he was going to cut me into them. — Claude Brown, Manchild in the Promised Land, pp. 165–166, 1965
- Enough to buy an ounce of horse–some real weight. — Emmett Grogan, Ringolevio, p. 44, 1972
- The dealer-in-weight sells by the piece (about an ounce) to street dealers. The street dealer (or dealer) buys the piece and then steps on it. — Burgess Laughlin, Job Opportunities in the Black Market, p. 6–5, 1978
- Of making a few stings, getting bread together, of Whitey contacting his man and connecting for weight in heroin and of pushing. — Herbert Huncke, The Evening Sun Turned Crimson, p. 209, 1980
- A “weight” is half a kilo, it used to be a pound, but dope has gone metric. — New Society, 16 December 1982
- I used to handle the weight [pounds, half pounds, kilograrms] and I still can. — Terry Williams, The Cocaine Kids, p. 18, 1989
- I bet he sold weight. That twenty-five hundred? He must’ve just sold an eighth of a ki. — Richard Price, Clockers, p. 167, 1992
- Henry Santoro and Frankie Fish are moving weight in Florida. — Gone in 60 Seconds, 2000
- a large amount of money US
- — American Speech, p. 306, December 1964: “Lingua Cosa Nostra”
- blame, responsibility US
- You’re too weak to take your own weight. — Clarence Cooper Jr, The Scene, p. 14, 1960
- With only a few weeks remaining in his freshman year, he’d been expelled for smoking reefers, or, as he now said, for taking “the weight” for a bunch of chumps who couldn’t care less about him. — Nathan Heard, Howard Street, p. 50, 1968
- “You wanted to carry weight,” Converse said. “I got you weight.” — Robert Stone, Dog Soldiers, p. 54, 1974
- I’ll rob trains and banks and lots of other things / And take the weight for narcotic rings. — Dennis Wepman et al., The Life, p. 41, 1976
- Jessie, anything we can do to take the weight off my son–and your grandson–we’re going to do. — Vincent Patrick, Family Business, p. 221, 1985
- I’m the guy that’s taking the weight, and it’s all right for you to roll by in your cruiser and pick up a little for my trouble. — Herbert Huncke, Guilty of Everything, p. 189, 1990
- I think my brother’s taking the weight for someone. — Richard Price, Clockers, p. 356, 1992
- difficulties, problems US
- — Anna Scotti and Paul Young, Buzzwords, p. 85, 1997
- the handicap that a skilled pool player will allow an opponent US
- If you want to play me anymore, my friend, you’re going to have to give me some weight. — Walter Tevis, The Color of Money, p. 75, 1984
- — Steve Rushin, Pool Cool, p. 29, 1990
▶ do the weight
to slim, to lose weight UK- I bump into Fat Pat. Well, he was once Fat Pat, but now he’s done the weight he’s just Pat. — Martin King and Martin Knight, The Naughty Nineties, p. 55, 1999
▶ put on weight
to undergo breast enhancement surgery US- — Anna Scotti and Paul Young, Buzzwords, p. 110, 1997
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