nose candy
nounEtymology From 1920s.
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Slang Cocaine.
- “[…] 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!”1930 October, Anita Loos, “Elmer Bliss Scotches a Scandal”, in Cosmopolitan, page 190:
- “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.”1951 April, Marcelene Cox, “Ask any Woman”, in Ladies' Home Journal, page 232:
3 more examples
- You be doing nose candy on the Bowie coke mirror / My girl asked for some, but I pretended not to hear her1989, “Car Thief”, in Paul's Boutique, performed by Beastie Boys:
- Except for the nose candy, I'm addicted to all of them, to a greater or lesser degree.1999, Les Roberts, A Shoot in Cleveland, →ISBN, page 1:
- 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!"2002, Joe Babcock, The Tragedy Of Miss Geneva Flowers, →ISBN, page 142: