narcling
n.— «“It’s rough stuff,” said John Donnelly, a lead instructor at the DEA training facility on the sprawling Marine base at Quantico. Donnelly got his start in the late 1980s busting meth labs in California’s Central Valley as a new DEA agent, or “narcling,” as he called it.» —“How to raid a meth lab” by Les Blumenthal Bellingham Herald (Washington) Feb. 18, 2007. (source: Double-Tongued Dictionary)
Further reading
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