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[UK] F. Tuohy Inside Dope 207: Importers [of drugs], big and important as they are, do not constitute the ultimate hierarchy of the traffic. There are others higher up still: the ‘C’s’, the so-called ‘Drug Barons’. [Ibid.] 207: A selection of ‘barons’ have been arrested spasmodically in recent years.
at baron, n.
[UK] F. Tuohy Inside Dope 96: Well, old bean! Haven’t seen you since the Cannes Conference!
at old bean (n.) under bean, n.2
[UK] F. Tuohy Inside Dope 81: A still worse condition is in America called ‘the bull horrors’, [...] that includes persecution mania.
at bull horrors, n.2
[UK] F. Tuohy Inside Dope 90: They have come to favour rapid withdrawal or else the still more violent sudden and total denial (called ‘cold turkey’).
at cold turkey, n.
[UK] F. Tuohy Inside Dope 118: Dopers, of both sexes, will tell you what a wonderful aphrodisiac their stuff is.
at doper, n.1
[UK] F. Tuohy Inside Dope 102: One can get the stuff so easily from Marseilles, and draw and puff immune from interference.
at draw, v.3
[UK] F. Tuohy Inside Dope 46: Now an instructed Bowery and Loop clamoured for this variety of ‘happy dust’ as possessing double the kick of ‘coke’.
at happy dust (n.) under happy, adj.
[UK] F. Tuohy Inside Dope 111: The women can go quite mad [...] on the other hand, some cases develop contrary symptoms, just getting heavy and bemused.
at heavy, adj.
[UK] F. Tuohy Inside Dope 195: ‘Helldust’, ‘coke’, ‘the needles’ [...] all are of American origin.
at hell dust (n.) under hell, n.
[UK] F. Tuohy Inside Dope 195: ‘Helldust’, ‘coke’, ‘the needles’ ‘honeymoon stage’ [...] all are of American origin.
at honeymoon (stage), n.
[UK] F. Tuohy Inside Dope 195: ‘Helldust’, ‘coke’, ‘the needles’, ‘honeymoon stage’, ‘Having an edge’, ‘bull horrors’, ‘the leaps’ [...] all are of American origin.
at leaps, n.
[UK] F. Tuohy Inside Dope 104: Modern lovelies and their queer escorts smoking opium off Juan-les-Pins.
at lovely, n.
[UK] F. Tuohy Inside Dope 195: ‘Helldust’, ‘coke’, ‘the needles’ [...] all are of American origin.
at needle, n.
[UK] F. Tuohy Inside Dope 196: The first international drug conference [...] was at Shanghai, and it led to a Hague successor in 1912 – perhaps the most useful drug pow-wow yet convened.
at pow-wow, n.
[UK] F. Tuohy Inside Dope 84: Many of the poorer cases will just slit the vein open with a safety pin and absorb the drug from an eye-dropper (the ‘pin-shot’).
at pin shot (n.) under shot, n.1
[UK] F. Tuohy Inside Dope 97: Well, I won’t say it exactly does you good, but if you go to a clinic now and then to get straightened out you escape the worst [...] A three weeks’ disintoxication or ‘straightening out’, minimum period, and not a cure but merely a cleansing of the system, will be undertaken against a fee of four to five thousand francs.
at straighten, v.2
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