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English
Etymology
From 1920s.[1]
Pronunciation
Noun
nose candy (uncountable)
- (slang) Cocaine.
- Synonyms: see Thesaurus:cocaine
1930 October, Anita Loos, “Elmer Bliss Scotches a Scandal”, in Cosmopolitan, page 190:“ […] 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!”
1951 April, Marcelene Cox, “Ask any Woman”, in Ladies' Home Journal, page 232:“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.”
1989, “Car Thief”, in Paul's Boutique, performed by Beastie Boys:You be doing nose candy on the Bowie coke mirror / My girl asked for some, but I pretended not to hear her
1999, Les Roberts, A Shoot in Cleveland, →ISBN, page 1:Except for the nose candy, I'm addicted to all of them, to a greater or lesser degree.
2002, Joe Babcock, The Tragedy Of Miss Geneva Flowers, →ISBN, page 142: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!"
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