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fishscales

fishscales is the plural of fishscale.

Meaning of fishscale

Noun

fishscale (countable and uncountable, plural fishscales)

  1. (countable, literal) The scale of a fish.
  2. (slang, uncountable) 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

Questions about fishscales

What is fishscales the plural of?
Fishscales is the plural of fishscale.

Words near fishscales in the dictionary

  1. fishrooms
  2. fishs
  3. fishsauce
  4. fishsauces
  5. fishscale
  6. fishscales
  7. fishseller
  8. fishsellers
  9. fishsicle
  10. fishsicles
  11. fishskin

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