fishscale
n.— «So I cut two lines and sprinkle a little on top of a snow capped bowl of good weed and fishscale coke. We smoke the bowl.» —“Everyone On This Board Has Died, This Means I Get to Be Emperor” by prototype in Rochester, N.Y. The Cult: The Offical Chuck Palahniuk Site June 28, 2003. (source: Double-Tongued Dictionary)
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