英和和英

名詞

white stuff (uncountable) (usually with "the")

1. (slang) The drug cocaine.
   • 2009 November 24, Elias Khoury, The Journey of Little Gandhi: A Novel, Picador, →ISBN, page 58:

     […] he was selling the white stuff and it's hard to bust cocaine dealers because they operate in areas that are hard to control.

   • 2010 April 23, Deanna Sparrow, The Legend of the Draugons, Xlibris Corporation, →ISBN, page 20:

     Damion would go pick up the white stuff - coke - for his mom so that he didn't have to . That wore out quick. Now Damion was making him sell the stuff for him!

   • 2019, Lucas D. Camaney, Bohemian Rhetoric, Xlibris Corporation, →ISBN:

     "No, man, the real shit is cocaine. And when motherfuckers start going hungry here, they find it as an excuse to sell the white stuff to the tourists. You don't want to do that because the news goes right to the bosses of the real cartels,” Oscar said and offered me the joint again.

2. (slang) The drug heroin, or sometimes the drug morphine.
   • 1928, Herbert Asbury, The Tick of the Clock, page 169:

     […] in selling the white stuff in little bottles, which, as Coleman has guessed, was dope. It was heroin and morphine. They also sold opium.

   • 1975, Federal Drug Enforcement: Hearings Before the Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations, of the United States Senate Committee on Government Operations, page 132:

     Turkey's three-year ban against growth of the poppy - now lifted - is the reason why white heroin has been in such short supply in this country. "I shudder to think what's going to happens when the white stuff starts flowing [again]," said Vernon D. Meyer, […]

   • 2013, David T. Courtwright, Addicts Who Survived: An Oral History of Narcotic Use, page 84:

     Sometimes you couldn't get opium, maybe no ship had come in. so I changed to the white stuff — heroin. This was when I was about thirty-five years old. I bought it all over the place — uptown, downtown, Chinatown.

3. Snow.
   • 1901, Bradley Gabriella, Mice and Spice, page 28:

     But after being in it for more than an hour, he wasn't at all sure about the white stuff. His hands were so cold they were numb.

   • 1962, Captain James H. Hughes, “Winter at White Plains”, in The MATS Flyer, volume 9, page 15:

     Starting on 12 December the white stuff started falling and from then 'til spring the ground was continually covered with snow, ice, slush and mixtures of each at any one time.

   • 2000, Robert Marcum, White Out, page 58:

     The white stuff was coming quick and heavy, the wind driving it around the clearing in flurries, decreasing visibility to less than a few yards in the dark gray of late afternoon.

   • 2001, Andrei Codrescu, An Involuntary Genius in America's Shoes (and what Happened Afterwards), page 290:

     They rolled down the hills with hands full of the white stuff which was coming down in earnest.

   • 2005, Molly Wolf, White China: Finding the Divine in the Everyday, page 99:

     ... we were getting appreciable amounts of the white stuff, and it was sticking around long enough to bring out the unmistakable crashing rumble of the snowplows.

4. (slang) Semen.