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See also: fish-scale and fish scale
English
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[edit]Etymology
[edit]From fish + scale, from its appearance as shiny yellowish flakes resembling the scales of a fish, as opposed to dull white powder.
Noun
[edit]fishscale (plural fishscales)
- (slang, idiomatic) Cocaine, usually of high quality taken directly off the brick and uncut.
- 1989, Terry Williams, chapter 2, in The Cocaine Kids: The Inside Story of a Teenage Drug Ring[1], page 41:
- The kids out here don't know a flake from a fish—if you asked them what fishscale is, they wouldn't know. [Fishscale is high-grade cocaine powder with few rock-like chunks.]
- 2011, Boston George, Caroline McGill, Soft: Cocaine Love Stories[2], unnumbered page:
- Oh shit, it was Fishscale! It was love at first sight. He nearly fell back in his chair. "No mothafuckin' way!" he yelled. He jumped up and danced a little two-step jig and thanked his lucky stars for the come-up. Fishscale cocaine! It was fucking Fishscale!
- 2015, Duane Swierczynski, Canary[3], unnumbered page:
- "You can get anything on here—isn't it incredible?" Slick Guy continues. "I couldn't believe it, either. I mean anything. MDMA from Holland, high-end weed, fish-scale coke, whatever.
- For more quotations using this term, see Citations:fishscale.