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white stuff

white stuff noun: the drug cocaine.

Noun

white stuff (uncountable)

  1. (slang, usually, with-definite-article) The drug cocaine.
    • […] he was selling the white stuff and it's hard to bust cocaine dealers because they operate in areas that are hard to control.2009 November 24, Elias Khoury, The Journey of Little Gandhi: A Novel, Picador, →ISBN, page 58
    • Damion would go pick up the white stuff - coke - for his mom so that he didn't have to . That wore out quick. Now Damion was making him sell the stuff for him!2010 April 23, Deanna Sparrow, The Legend of the Draugons, Xlibris Corporation, →ISBN, page 20
  2. (slang, usually, with-definite-article) The drug heroin, or sometimes the drug morphine.
    • […] in selling the white stuff in little bottles, which, as Coleman has guessed, was dope. It was heroin and morphine. They also sold opium.1928, Herbert Asbury, The Tick of the Clock, page 169
    • Turkey's three-year ban against growth of the poppy - now lifted - is the reason why white heroin has been in such short supply in this country. "I shudder to think what's going to happens when the white stuff starts flowing [again]," said Vernon D. Meyer, […]1975, Federal Drug Enforcement: Hearings Before the Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations, of the United States Senate Committee on Government Operations, page 132
  3. (usually, with-definite-article) Snow.
    • But after being in it for more than an hour, he wasn't at all sure about the white stuff. His hands were so cold they were numb.1901, Bradley Gabriella, Mice and Spice, page 28
    • Starting on 12 December the white stuff started falling and from then 'til spring the ground was continually covered with snow, ice, slush and mixtures of each at any one time.1962, Captain James H. Hughes, “Winter at White Plains”, in The MATS Flyer, volume 9, page 15
  4. (slang, usually, with-definite-article) Semen.

Examples of white stuff in a sentence

  • And when motherfuckers start going hungry here, they find it as an excuse to sell the white stuff to the tourists.2019, Lucas D. Camaney, Bohemian Rhetoric, Xlibris Corporation, →ISBN:
  • Sometimes you couldn't get opium, maybe no ship had come in. so I changed to the white stuff — heroin.2013, David T. Courtwright, Addicts Who Survived: An Oral History of Narcotic Use, page 84:
  • The white stuff was coming quick and heavy, the wind driving it around the clearing in flurries, decreasing visibility to less than a few yards in the dark gray of late afternoon.2000, Robert Marcum, White Out, page 58:
  • They rolled down the hills with hands full of the white stuff which was coming down in earnest.2001, Andrei Codrescu, An Involuntary Genius in America's Shoes (and what Happened Afterwards), page 290:

Questions about white stuff

What does white stuff mean?
White stuff means the drug cocaine.
How do you use white stuff in a sentence?
And when motherfuckers start going hungry here, they find it as an excuse to sell the white stuff to the tourists.
What part of speech is white stuff?
White stuff is a noun.

Words near white stuff in the dictionary

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  2. white stork
  3. white storks
  4. white stout
  5. white stouts
  6. white stuff
  7. white sturgeon
  8. white sturgeons
  9. white sugar
  10. White Sulphur Springs
  11. White Sunday

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