monging

monging
 n.— «These two students were quite a contrast to the homeless guy, who, I must say, I liked considerably more; he had no delusions of grandeur, unlike these perhaps too nicely groomed jocks, who felt it their mission for the night to talk to me about the “monging effects” of the morphine tablets they had both taken.» —“On the road to ‘Wasterville,’ USA” by Daniel Cullen in Oregon State University Daily Barometer (Corvallis, Ore.) Nov. 23, 2005. (source: Double-Tongued Dictionary)

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