Bolivian marching powder
Bolivian marching powder noun: cocaine.
Noun
Bolivian marching powder (uncountable)
- Cocaine.
- Your brain at this moment is composed of brigades of tiny Bolivian soldiers. They are tired and muddy from their long march through the night. There are holes in their boots and they are hungry. They need to be fed. They need the Bolivian Marching Powder.1984, Jay McInerney, Bright Lights, Big City, →ISBN, page 2
- For those enamored of the glitzy life, coke—snow, blow, nose candy, Bolivian Marching Powder—became the drug.1986, Robert Emmet Long, Drugs and American Society
Synonyms of Bolivian marching powder
- Colombian marching powder
- Peruvian marching powder
- benzoylmethylecgonine
- blow
- booger sugar
- boots
- California corn flakes
- charlie
- ching
- coke
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Origin of Bolivian marching powder
Bolivia and Peru were the leading producer countries through most of the 1980s and 1990s.
Questions about Bolivian marching powder
- What does Bolivian marching powder mean?
- Bolivian marching powder means cocaine.
- What part of speech is Bolivian marching powder?
- Bolivian marching powder is a noun.
Words near Bolivian marching powder in the dictionary
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