chalk n.3
1. (US) milk or cream.
![[US]](/static/img/flags/us.png "United States") | ‘Chatter of Guns’ in Sat. Eve. Post 13 Apr.; list extracted in AS VI:2 (1930) 132: chalk, n. Milk. | |
| Dict. Amer. Sl. | |
![[UK]](/static/img/flags/uk.png "United Kingdom") | Ancestral Voices diary 22 June (1975) 81: At luncheon the waiter asked, ‘Will you have cream with your gooseberries, m’m?’ ‘es, rather,'’said Nancy. ‘Delicious chalk’. | |
| Criminal Sl. (rev. edn). | |
| , | | DAS. |
2. (US black) a white person; thus chalkette, a white woman.
| Kingsblood Royal (2001) 136: Most of us sables would rather marry a gal like Sophie than a chalkette. | |
| Blind Man with a Pistol (1971) 122: You sniffing at the wrong tuft, Slick, baby [...] She like chalk. | |
| Runnin’ Down Some Lines 60: The single most descriptive attribute young blacks focus on in their labeling of whites is color – or the lack of it – such as [...] chalk, lily, pale face. |
3. US drug uses.
(a) methamphetamine, Benzedrine or Methedrine.
| Drugs from A to Z (1970) 59: chalk [...] amphetamine tablets. | |
| Snowblind (1978) 240: The most popular word is ups. Brain ticklers, browns, cartwheels, chalk [...] are words of the sixties and are out of use now. | |
| Runnin’ Down Some Lines 169: Benzedrine – variously called white, benny, bean, chalk, or wake-up. | |
| Bk of Jargon 337: chalk: Amphetamines. | |
| ONDCP Street Terms 5: Chalk — [...] amphetamine [...] methamphetamine. |
(b) cocaine.
| Drug Crisis in Spears (1986). |
(c) Methadone [may be an error, confusing the abbr. ‘meth’ used for sense 3a].
| Drug Abuse. |
(d) crack cocaine.
| ONDCP Street Terms 5: Chalk — Crack Cocaine. |
In phrases
(N.Z. prison) a pair of very close friends.
![[NZ]](/static/img/flags/nz.png "New Zealand") | Boobslang [U. Canterbury D.Phil. thesis] 40/1: chalk and cheese n. two inmates who are very close friends and spend much of their time together. |