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nose candy

nose candy noun: cocaine.

Noun

nose candy (uncountable)

  1. (slang) Cocaine.
    • “[…] I find out that I got Viola Lake under contract for the next five years, no matter what she does; and now I have to learn that she's gone and got herself addicted to nose candy! Oi Gewalt! If I had any hair, I’d tear it!”1930 October, Anita Loos, “Elmer Bliss Scotches a Scandal”, in Cosmopolitan, page 190
    • “Okay”—Ben walked to the doorway, then turned—“but if you secretly sniff nose candy while I'm at the office, I don't want to know about it.”1951 April, Marcelene Cox, “Ask any Woman”, in Ladies' Home Journal, page 232

Examples of nose candy in a sentence

  • You be doing nose candy on the Bowie coke mirror / My girl asked for some, but I pretended not to hear her1989, “Car Thief”, in Paul's Boutique, performed by Beastie Boys:
  • Except for the nose candy, I'm addicted to all of them, to a greater or lesser degree.1999, Les Roberts, A Shoot in Cleveland, →ISBN, page 1:

Synonyms of nose candy

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Forms of nose candy

alternative formnose-candy

Origin of nose candy

From 1920s.

Questions about nose candy

What does nose candy mean?
Nose candy means cocaine.
How do you use nose candy in a sentence?
You be doing nose candy on the Bowie coke mirror / My girl asked for some, but I pretended not to hear her
What part of speech is nose candy?
Nose candy is a noun.

Words near nose candy in the dictionary

  1. nose bridges
  2. nose butter
  3. nose buttered
  4. nose buttering
  5. nose butters
  6. nose candy
  7. nose cap
  8. nose caps
  9. nose cone
  10. nose cones
  11. nose count

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