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deck
noun- a packet of a powdered drug US, 1916
- The stuff is usually paid for in advance, with the peddlers hoping they come through with enough decks to make money on it. — Mickey Spillane, I, The Jury, p. 23, 1947
- Now you can pull up in your car in front of a newsdealer there, at any hour, day or night, and place a bet on a horse, buy a deck of junk or get a girl[.] — Jack Lait and Lee Mortimer, Washington Confidential, p. 20, 1951
- Once he was too feeble to leave the house and sent me out for a deck of junk. — Ethel Water, His Eye is on the Sparrow, p. 148, 1952
- “He promised to let me have some stuff.” “What sort of stuff? Reefers?” “No. A deck of H.” — Douglas Rutherford, The Creeping Flesh, p. 102, 1963
- Many addicts–especially pushers–wear a rubber band on their wrists (a dealer’s band, some call it) which, if hooked properly around a deck of heroin, will send it flying if an approaching detective is spotted. — James Mills, The Panic in Needle Park, p. 15, 1966
- When we saw him choking, we knew he’d been eating the decks he had on him, so before he could digest them we got enough out of him to convict him of possession anyway. — Chester Himes, Come Back Charleston Blue, p. 28, 1966
- Walbert was steady nickel-and-dime decks and street pimpin’. — Edwin Torres, After Hours, p. 210, 1979
- Phil Vittimizzare was eating a Danish while he played the pinball machine and two dealers were counting out decks of heroin at a table in the back. — Richard Condon, Prizzi’s Honor, p. 34, 1982
- She would give me piddling amounts of H. They used to sell it in decks in those days. Instead of glassine bags they’d fold a piece of paper into a little package. — Herbert Huncke, Guilty of Everything, p. 31, 1990
- You show me one fucking junkie out there who don’t know how you catch the Virus [HIV], I’ll buy you a whole deck of heroin, how’s that? — Richard Price, Clockers, p. 238, 1992
- The man, identified as Reynaldo Colon, 33, of Ridgewood, Queens, approached the detective with a folding Leatherman, a metal-colored multipurpose tool, and said, “Give me the decks,” using street slang to refer to the small glassine packages of heroin. — New York Times, p. B3, 21 October 2000
- a packet of cigarettes US, 1923
- I sat there until a quarter to nine trying to smoke my way through a deck of Luckies. — Mickey Spillane, One Lonely Night, p. 103, 1951
- — Newsweek, p. 98, 8 October 1951
- a phonograph turntable US
A critical component of a DJ - — Judi Sanders, Da Bomb, p. 5, 1997
- the ground UK, 1836
- [S]ome mug was laying stark out [spark out] on the deck, with a load of claret pouring out of his mouth. — Frank Norman, Bang To Rights, p. 26, 1958
- in cricket, the pitch UK, 1995
- — Keith Foley, A Dictionary of Cricketing Terminology, p. 98, 1998
- a pack of playing cards UK
In conventional use from late C16 until about 1720, then dialect and colloquial. In the early part of C20, usage was confined, more or less, to the underworld; from the end of World War 2 it was in common use in the UK and Australia and, by the 1970s, in general and widespread informal use. “Deck of cards” was a UK number one hit for Max Bygraves in 1973. - Those of the boys who had a prayer book took them out, but this one boy had only a deck of cards, and so he spread them out. — Tex Ritter, Deck of Cards, 1948
- a skateboard US
- Lactameon wasn’t even sure Steadhams like that were made anymore, and a seriously ridden deck was lucky to last half a year no matter how good[.] — Jess Mowry, Six Out Seven, p. 84, 1993
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