"rail" citation from Double-Tongued Dictionary

Catchword: rail

Part of Speech: n.

The part of speech reflects that used in the full entry, and not necessarily the part of speech as it is used in the quotation below.

Quotation: When the restaurant closed, we’d take over the bar, drinking Cristal—which we’d buy at cost—and running fat rails of coke from one end of the bar to the other, then crawling along all fours to snort them.

Author:
Anthony Bourdain

Article, Document, Publication, Web Site:
Kitchen Confidential

Date of Publication:
May 22, 2000

Page Number:
124

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