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cocaine

/koh-keyn, koh-keyn/US // koʊˈkeɪn, ˈkoʊ keɪn //UK // (kəˈkeɪn) //

可卡因,可卡因类,古柯碱,可卡因类药物

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  1. 1

    Pharmacology.

    • : a bitter, crystalline alkaloid, C17H21NO4, obtained from coca leaves, used as a local anesthetic and also widely used as an illicit drug for its stimulant and euphorigenic properties.

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  • Williams has talked openly about regularly using cocaine in the late ’80s and early ’90s.

  • A trucking company that carries a load of cocaine on interstate highways is liable for drug trafficking, as would be a drug company whose products caused opiate overdoses.

  • One defendant told investigators that one year, the 22-member Phi Gamma Delta pledge class pooled money to buy an ounce of cocaine for a spring-break trip.

  • Because of its method of ingestion, crack cocaine produces a quicker and more acute high.

  • Possessing heroin, cocaine, methamphetamine and other drugs for personal use is no longer a criminal offense in Oregon.

  • Coca-Cola was a wildly popular drink and hangover remedy because, well, it contained cocaine.

  • Cocaine busts, tax cheats, and bribe-taking, born-again Christians: Welcome to the political scandals of 2014.

  • The characters you play on the show are extremely diverse—ranging from a cocaine-rattled rich boy to an ornery Jewish grandpa.

  • The night before he bought a lot of crack-cocaine on credit with no way to pay, intending to kill himself after smoking.

  • He dealt drugs, was addicted to cocaine by the time he was 13, and found himself constantly in trouble with the law.

  • For those who have opium, cocaine, veronal, or heroin to sell can always find a ready market in London and elsewhere.

  • Such a method is far safer than cocaine, which should never be put in the hands of the patient for any purpose whatever.

  • I did not think cocaine a safe drug and never used it, preferring the hay fever to the cocaine habit.

  • All three of us were having trouble with snow-blindness; the "zinc and cocaine" tabloids being in great demand.

  • I collected from the living voices of my fellow prisoners innumerable jail and cocaine songs, and rhymes of the criminal world.