rail
n.— «When the restaurant closed, we’d take over the bar, drinking Cristal—which we’d buy at cost—and running fat rails of coke from one end of the bar to the other, then crawling along all fours to snort them.» —by Anthony Bourdain Kitchen Confidential May 22, 2000. (source: Double-Tongued Dictionary)
Further reading
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