Red P
n.— «“The tweakers, they’re doing a red P cook,” said a local NMSP undercover agent in advance of the raid. “Tweaker” is slang for meth user. “Red P” is slang for red phosphorous, one of the precursors of a homemade brand of methamphetamine.» —“Two arrested in Boles Acres methamphetamine lab raid” by Ellis Neel in Boles Acres Alamogordo Daily News (N.M.) Feb. 18, 2005. (source: Double-Tongued Dictionary)
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