white lady
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white lady (sense 2)
See also: White Lady
English
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Pronunciation
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Noun
white lady (countable and uncountable, plural white ladies)
- (folklore) A female ghost dressed in white, who is associated with local legends of tragedy.
- For quotations using this term, see Citations:white lady.
- A sour cocktail made with gin or crème de menthe, triple sec or Cointreau, and a citrus juice, sometimes with an egg white.
- (slang, Australia) Methylated spirit.
- (uncountable, slang) Cocaine.
- Synonyms: white girl; see also Thesaurus:cocaine
- (uncountable, slang) Heroin.
- Synonyms: see Thesaurus:heroin
- Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see white, lady.
Translations
in folklore
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cocaine
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See also
References
- (cocaine; heroin): Tony Thorne (2014) “white lady”, in Dictionary of Contemporary Slang, 4th edition, London, : Bloomsbury
Further reading
- “white lady n. (methylated spirit)”, in Green’s Dictionary of Slang, Jonathon Green, 2016–present
- “white lady n. (cocaine, heroin)”, in Green’s Dictionary of Slang, Jonathon Green, 2016–present
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Cebuano
Etymology
Unadapted borrowing from English white lady.
Noun
white lady
- (folklore) a white lady (ghost)
Quotations
For quotations using this term, see Citations:white lady.