coke

coke
   cocaine used illegally
   No more than a shortened form, without reference to the beverage. A cokie habitually uses the drug illegally:
    Out of the apartment houses came cokies and coke peddlers who look like nothing in particular. (Chandler, 1943)
   A coke-hound is not a sniffer dog:
    He's a coke-hound and he talks in his sleep. (Chandler, 1939)
   Coked is being under the influence of the narcotic:
    ... 'coked' or 'bopped up' by gunmen. (Lavine, 1930)

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