marching powder
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[edit]Noun
[edit]- (slang) Ellipsis of Bolivian marching powder etc.; cocaine.
- 2000 December 20, Kurious Oranj, “The Poor Are Getting Poorer.”, in nz.politics[1] (Usenet), retrieved 2022-02-28:
- Maybe Malaysia had less corrupt politicians than Jamaica or Columbia. Maybe the population doesn't spend all day stuffing marching powder up its noses and buckles down and gets some work done.
- 2021 November 29, Ahem A Rivet's Shot, “Droning on”, in uk.rec.sheds[3] (Usenet), retrieved 2022-02-28:
- She said she'd done that and didn't want to do it again - then hootered off to Peru to write a bilingual novel in English and an obscure South American language I'd never heard of and now can't remember the name. Wound up getting rescued from jail there by her fan club (she was a bit fond of the marching powder).
- A powder such as talcum used in socks to keep blisters from forming.
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[edit]References
[edit]- Eric Partridge (2005) “marching powder”, in Tom Dalzell and Terry Victor, editors, The New Partridge Dictionary of Slang and Unconventional English, volume 2 (J–Z), London, New York, N.Y.: Routledge, →ISBN, page 1267.
- “marching powder”, in Green’s Dictionary of Slang, Jonathon Green, 2016–present