cocaine
IPA: koʊkˈeɪn
noun
- (uncountable, pharmacology) An addictive drug derived from coca (Erythroxylum) or prepared synthetically, used sometimes medicinally as a local anesthetic and, often illegally, as a stimulant.
- (countable) Any derivative of cocaine.
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Examples of "cocaine" in Sentences
- The boy silently breaks in and finds the cocaine.
- The Cocaine article has a focus on the pharmacology.
- Bostick asked the trial court to suppress the cocaine.
- There is mention of the alcohol use, but not of the cocaine
- In the 1800s opiates and cocaine were mostly unregulated drugs.
- I removed the reference to cocaine addict in the intro sentence.
- In the 1980s the tea was used to wean cocaine addicts off the drug.
- As cocaine is a powerful stimulant it is often abused for this effect1.
- For the next decade cocaine enjoyed the status of a wonder drug and panacea.
- For the next decade, cocaine enjoyed the status of a wonder drug and panacea.
- Cocaine is smoked by inhaling the vapor by sublimating solid cocaine by heating.
- The word cocaine refers to the drug in both a powder (cocaine) and crystal (crack) form.
- When Mark Penn went on Hardball, purportedly to disown Shaheen’s aspersions, he instead sharpened them by using the word cocaine on air.
- He joins forces with former army hero Calvin Dexter to hit at the heart of the trade, which he identifies as cocaine's transportation by boat, and uses a budget of $2 billion to target vessels and corrupt officials in a global operation.
- At the time, we had a very pretentious bar called simply The State Bar, complete with the original filming model of the blimp from Blade Runner over the bar and a collection of 20something SMU brats already so far gone in cocaine addiction that their noses looked like Michael Jackson's.
- Freebase cocaine is essentially pure cocaine that is made today by preparing an aqueous solution of cocaine HCI and adding ammonia or bicarbonate to alkalinize the solution and precipitate alkaloidal cocaine. 6 The "freebase" formed is nonwater-soluble, does not decompose. with heat and can be crushed, and mixed with tobacco and smoked.