gronk

gronk
 n.— «Those were the days when myth said heroin was just another drug, a creative juice, before methadone and dereliction, before decent people turned into evil little gronks, before so many talented people died.» —“Where the final price is high indeed” by John Stapleton The Australian Mar. 24, 1999. (source: Double-Tongued Dictionary)

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