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cement arm

cement arm noun: a person's arm that has scarred and hardened from the repeated injection of recreational drugs.

Noun

cement arm (plural cement arms)

  1. (slang) A person's arm that has scarred and hardened from the repeated injection of recreational drugs.
    • […] this use of codeine causing, in underworld parlance, a “cement arm”, hard lumps forming at the point of injection.1932, Traffic in Opium and Other Dangerous Drugs, page 8
    • As the “cement arms” became more common, the earlier patients began to fall away. Some of them thought that the iron in the mixture was responsible, and asked Dr. Lilliendahl to leave it out of their prescriptions. But he never did.1953, Leroy Street (pseudonym), I was a Drug Addict (page 153)

Forms of cement arm

pluralcement arms

Questions about cement arm

What does cement arm mean?
Cement arm means a person's arm that has scarred and hardened from the repeated injection of recreational drugs.
What part of speech is cement arm?
Cement arm is a noun.
What is the plural of cement arm?
The plural of cement arm is cement arms.

Words near cement arm in the dictionary

  1. cembrene A
  2. cembrenes
  3. cembrenoid
  4. cembrenoids
  5. cement
  6. cement arm
  7. cement arms
  8. cement board
  9. cement boards
  10. cement car
  11. cement copper

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