fishscale
fishscale noun: the scale of a fish.
Noun
fishscale (countable and uncountable, plural fishscales)
- The scale of a fish.
- Cocaine, usually of high quality, taken directly off the brick and uncut.
- 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.]1989, Terry Williams, chapter 2, in The Cocaine Kids: The Inside Story of a Teenage Drug Ring, page 41
- 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!2011, Boston George, Caroline McGill, Soft: Cocaine Love Stories, unnumbered page
Forms of fishscale
| plural | fishscales |
|---|---|
| alternative form | fish-scale |
Origin of fishscale
From fish + scale. The use for sense 2 is from its appearance as shiny yellowish flakes resembling the scales of a fish, as opposed to dull white powder.
Questions about fishscale
- What does fishscale mean?
- Fishscale means the scale of a fish.
- What part of speech is fishscale?
- Fishscale is a noun.
- What is the plural of fishscale?
- The plural of fishscale is fishscales.
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