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rail

n. a line of powdered drugs intended to be inhaled. Subjects: , ,
Citations: 1995 [lacelle@lifesci.lscf.ucsb.edu (John Lacelle)] Usenet: alt.bigfoot (Feb. 7) “Moose in Manhatten”: He discos about, raving throughout his kingdom/and lowers his head to snort a rail. 1997 [Capt. Meat] Usenet: alt.drugs.hard (Dec. 6) “Re: Crank and coke comparision—question”: After a biker-rail of meth, i wanna do something. after a biker-rail of blow, i wanna do more blow. 2000 Mark Ames, Matt Taibbi, Edward Limonov The Exile: Sex, Drugs, and Libel in the New Russia (Apr. 1) p. 119: He pulled out a wad of cocaine and poured it onto a mirror. He pulled out two credit cards and started to chop and divide like a Benihana chef, cutting some of the hugest rails I’d ever seen. 2000 Anthony Bourdain Kitchen Confidential (May 22) p. 124: 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. 2002 [aryan_soldat] EliteFitness.com (May 14) “My Fuckin Life is Over!”: Fernando has an 8-ball of coke laid out on the bathroom counter, and he is like, “blow a rail, holmes!” I’d never done coke before.

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