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tracks
noun
bruises, punctures and sores visible on the skin of an intravenous drug user US- “For another thing, your boy’s got tracks up and down his left arm–” “Tracks?” “That’s the spot on an addict’s arm where he keeps shoving the needle in,” King told him. — Clarence Cooper Jr, The Scene, p. 121, 1960
- In summer, they alone wear long sleeves (to cover their “tracks” – collapsed veins and needle marks). — James Mills, The Panic in Needle Park, p. 17, 1966
- Old needle marks – tracks – where she had tried to hit her veins and missed. — Herbert Huncke, The Evening Sun Turned Crimson, p. 62, 1980
▶ across the tracks; wrong side of the tracks
the socially inferior area of town US, 1943
The railway often separated the better-offpart of an American town from the poorer quarters. Duke Ellington’s “Across the Tracks Blues” dates to 1943.- But the gentlemen friends who used to call / They never did seem to mind at all / They came to the wrong side of the tracks[.] — Marilyn Monroe and Jane Russell, Two Little Girls from Little Rock, 1953
▶ make tracks
to leave US- — Lou Shelly, Hepcats Jive Talk Dictionary, p. 29, 1945
- — Hy Lit, Hy Lit’s Unbelievable Dictionary of Hip Words for Groovy People, p. 27, 1968
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