They said they'd never heard of medetomidine, but when the cop referred to it by its street name — rhino tranq — their ears perked up.
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Street name
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Ecstasy is the commercially inspired American street name of MDMA (3,4-methylenedioxymethylamphetamine), a unique psychostimulant drug with both stimulant and hallucinogenic effects.
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2008 January 19, Peter Sagal (host), Wait, Wait...Don’t Tell Me!, National Public Radio Police quickly determined that the street name for holy sand was “cocaine” and said that the man’s arrest has made them think twice about the holy tic tacs and holy parsley they’ve seen lately.
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They said they'd never heard of Mister Dzhugashvili, but when the cop referred to him by his street name — Stalin — their ears perked up.
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