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Angel dust

noun, slang

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Noun
  1. 1
    Phencyclidine, a type of dissociative anesthetic. slang, uncountable
  2. 2
    a drug used as an anesthetic by veterinarians; illicitly taken (originally in the form of powder or ‘dust’) for its effects as a hallucinogen wordnet
  3. 3
    Clenbuterol, a banned drug formerly used in animal feedlots. Ireland, slang, uncountable

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First attested in c. 1969 in Rolling Stone magazine.

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