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snow
noun- a powdered drug, especially cocaine but at times heroin US, 1914
- Some of us had taken to sniffing snow not long before; we liked it because it makes your mind very alert, you do so high-jive thinking and talk up a breeze. — Mezz Mezzrow, Really the Blues, p. 170, 1946
- Like where to pick up a strip of benny or a paper of snow, or anything you want from the outside, if the price is right. — Thurston Scott, Cure it with Honey, p. 194, 1951
- You ever hear of dope? Snow? Junk? Big H? Horse? — John D. McDonald, The Neon Jungle, p. 61, 1953
- [T]he hemp makes me limp and I’m ready to go when the cat hollers slow. Like I’m not lame in the brain from a snort of cocaine. — Dan Burley, Diggeth Thou?, p. 37, 1959
- [I]t took me only a little while to locate a peddler of “snow”–cocaine. — Malcolm X and Alex Haley, The Autobiography of Malcolm X, p. 134, 1964
- He said that they called it “snow” then but that the real name of it was heroin. — Claude Brown, Manchild in the Promised Land, p. 104, 1965
- When the wind blows and the rain feels cold / With a head full of snow. — Mick Jagger and Keith Richards, Moonlight Mile, 1971
- “I need front money for the first load of snow,” Mona said. — Gerald Petievich, The Quality of the Informant, p. 6, 1985
- silver; silver money UK, 1925
- — Paul Tempest, Lag’s Lexicon, 1950
- — Frank McKenna, A Glossary of Railwaymen’s Talk, 1970
- passes for free admission to a performance; audience members who attend a performance using a free pass US
- — Don Wilmeth, The Language of American Popular Entertainment, p. 249, 1981
▶ no snow on your shoes
in the context of a betting operation, trustworthy US
From the belief that someone who has been inside the operation long enough for the snow to have melted off his shoes does not have advance information on a bet.- — David W. Maurer, Argot of the Racetrack, p. 44, 1951
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