Dictionary of American slang and colloquial expressions. 2015.
habit — an addiction to narcotics Not used of the equally addictive alcohol or tobacco. Your preference may be indicated by a modifier as, for example, nose habit, and the degree of addiction in a phrase assessing the cost: ... $50 a day habit … How not to say what you mean: A dictionary of euphemisms
nose — a cocaine addict The allusion is to sniffing the powder: Higgins taught her everything there was to know about cocaine, turned her into the biggest nose in town. (McBain, 1994) Having a nose habit is such addiction … How not to say what you mean: A dictionary of euphemisms
Nose-picking — Classification and external resources … Wikipedia
habit — 01. He is out of shape simply due to inactivity and poor eating [habits]. 02. My sister has a [habit] of playing with her hair while she is watching television. 03. An alarming number of teenagers are continuing to smoke cigarettes despite the… … Grammatical examples in English
Habit (psychology) — Habits are habituated routines of behavior that are repeated regularly, tend to occur subconsciously, and tend to occur without directly thinking consciously about those behaviors. [Butler, Gillian; Hope, Tony. Managing Your Mind: The mental… … Wikipedia
Nose picking — Rhinotillexomania, one of the more obscure and exotic terms in medicine. Rhinotillexomania has drawn attention because of the habit to which it refers. It is a recent term coined to describe compulsive nose picking according to Chittaranjan… … Medical dictionary
Human nose — in profile Illustration of nose diagram … Wikipedia
Camel's nose — The camel s nose is a metaphor for a situation where permitting some small undesirable situation will allow gradual and inexorable worsening. A typical usage is this, from U.S. Senator Barry Goldwater in 1958::This bill and the foregoing remarks… … Wikipedia
powder one’s nose — 1. AND powder one’s face tv. to depart to the bathroom. (Usually said by women, or jocularly by men.) □ Excuse me, I have to powder my nose. □ She just went out to powder her face. 2. tv. to use cocaine. □ John is in the bedroom powdering his nos … Dictionary of American slang and colloquial expressions
drugs — (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) Medicinal substances Nouns 1. drugs; therapeutic drugs (see remedy); drug or substance abuse; drug addiction, [chemical] dependency, physical or psychological dependence, habit, reverse tolerance; glue… … English dictionary for students
