nose candy

alternative nose-candy

1. slanguncountableCocaine.

   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

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   “[…] 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

   You be doing nose candy on the Bowie coke mirror / My girl asked for some, but I pretended not to hear her

   1989, “Car Thief”, in Paul's Boutique, performed by Beastie Boys

   I told him that it just tasted sort of sugary and fizzy, like Pop Rocks for your nose, and he said, "Hence the name nose-candy, baby!"

   2002, Joe Babcock, The Tragedy Of Miss Geneva Flowers, →ISBN, page 142

   Synonyms: benzoylmethylecgonine, blow, Bolivian marching powder, booger sugar, boots, California corn flakes, charlie, ching