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white noun- a capsule of Benzedrine™ (amphetamine sulphate) or any other central nervous system stimulant US
- Bennies (“cartwheels” or “whites”) are basic to the outlaw diet–like weed, beer and wine. — Hunter S. Thompson, Hell’s Angels, p. 216, 1966
- “They way they put it is that they ‘drop whites’ to get out of bed in the morning, or whenever they get up to go to work, and ‘drop reds’ to go to sleep,” Sweeney reported at the conference. — San Francisco Chronicle, p. 5, 11 October 1966
- — Current Slang, p. 51, Fall 1968
- Tim was back to his old regimen of reds and whites. — Lester Bangs, Psychotic Reactions and Carburetor Dung, p. 109, 1972
- Reds and Ripple mixed with a bennie, a white and a toke. — Oscar Zeta Acosta, The Revolt of the Cockroach People, p. 90, 1973
- And if you give me weed, whites and wine / And you show me a sign/ Then I’ll be willin’–to be movin.’ — Little Feat, Willin’, 1988
- They were also referred to as whites, or, for the indecisive, white crosses, and were sold by the $1 unit called a rack[.] — Editors of Ben is Dead, Retrohell, p. 50, 1997
- Street names [...] wake ups, whites, whizz. — James Kay and Julian Cohen, The Parents’ Complete Guide to Young People and Drugs, p. 129, 1998
- heroin, cocaine or morphine US, 1914
From the colour of the powdered drug. - — Richard A. Spears, The Slang and Jargon of Drugs and Drink, p. 547, 1986
- — Robert Ashton, This Is Heroin, p. 207, 2002
- — Mike Haskins, Drugs, p. 285, 2003
- crack cocaine US
A derivative of the previous sense. - — Bill Valentine, Gang Intelligence Manual, p. 130, 1995
- But the drug of choice now was crack cocaine. Coke. Rock. White. Stones. Charlie. — Lanre Fehintola, Charlie Says..., p. 129, 2000
- a five-pound note UK, 1946
From the colour of the large five-pound notes, which were withdrawn from circulation in 1957. - — Charles Raven, Underworld Nights, p. 174, 1956
- platinum jewellery UK
- — Paul Tempest, Lag’s Lexicon, 1950
- in American casinos, a white betting token worth one dollar US
- — Steve Kuriscak, Casino Talk, p. 59, 1985
- in American casinos, a white betting token worth $500 US, 1961
- — Thomas L. Clark, The Dictionary of Gambling and Gaming, p. 249, 1987
- a day; daytime US
- About a deuce of long black and whites ago, a stud from the low lands came to the Apple. — Babs Gonzales, Movin’ On Down De Line, p. 89, 1975
- “silver” coins UK, 1887
Variants include “whites” and “white money”. - — Stanley Jackson, An Indiscreet Guide to Soho, 1946
- — Paul Tempest, Lag’s Lexicon, 1950
▶ like white on rice entirely, utterly, completely US- They were on my ass like white on rice. — Odie Hawkins, Scars and Memories, p. 73, 1987
▶ the white crack cocaine US- Before seeking the order, police completed undercover purchase of “the white,” street slang for rock cocaine, and “the black,” slang for tar heroin, from 24 people. — Sacramento Bee, p. A1, 5 December 2007
▶ the white surgical spirit as an alcoholic drink UK The liquid is clear but “white” differentiates this from BLUEThey [vagrant alcoholics] subsist on a diet of methylated spirits (jake or the blue), surgical spirit (surge or the white) and other forms of crude alcohol. — Peter Ackroyd, London The Biography, p. 359, 2000▶ white-boy shuffle an uncoordinated, ungraceful, counter-rhythmic dancing style US- — Judi Sanders, Faced and Faded, Hanging to Hurl, p. 43, 1993
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