pies
n.— «On all the tapes no one ever mentions the word “cocaine,” instead using common street jargon for the drug such as “pies” and “yeh.”» —“Region’s largest cocaine ring uncovered” by Torsten Ove Pittsburgh Post-Gazette (Pa.) Oct. 24, 2004. (source: Double-Tongued Dictionary)
Further reading
An anadrome is a word that forms a whole new word when you spell it backwards. For example, the word “stressed” spelled backwards is “desserts.” Some people’s first names are anadromes. There’s the girl named Noel...
A flashlight doesn’t flash. It provides a steady beam of light. So why is it called a flashlight? The earliest versions lit up only briefly before the batteries gave out and required a recharge, so they were literally “flash lights...