cheese
n.— «Drug dealers are mixing small amounts of heroin with crushed Tylenol PM tablets and selling it cheap at Dallas schools, the newest low-cost high available to kids. Police have found the mixture, dubbed “cheese,” at 11 Dallas schools.» —“New drug craze hits DISD” by Kent Fischer, Jason Trahan Dallas Morning News (Texas) Apr. 28, 2006. (source: Double-Tongued Dictionary)
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