nose candy

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nose candy

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From 1920s.

noun nose-candy

slang, uncountable 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!”
Similar: benzoylmethylecgonine, blow, Bolivian marching powder, booger sugar, boots, California corn flakes, charlie, ching, coke, corinne, crystals, flake

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@misc{nose_candy_2026,
  title = {nose candy},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/nose%20candy},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}