Heard on The Judges: "toot powder"

[Marc Velasco]

that certainly sounds like more fun than sniffing or snorting.

On Mon, Jun 23, 2008 at 1:21 PM, Wilson Gray <hwgray at gmail.com> wrote:

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> Black, female speaker, ca.35y.o., describing her former life:
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> "I'm a recovering addict, your honor. From the age of eighteen to 33,
> I drank, smoked weed, ..., _tooted powder_, ..."
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> It's fairly obvious that she means that she used to do lines of coke,
> but I've never heard it expressed it this way before. It's also
> unknown to the Urban Dictionary and there are only 36 Google hits,
> with only one relevant example:
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> "Since then, he's admitted to extramarital affairs and now he's
> confessed to being a pothead and he said that he used to _'toot
> powder'_ or use cocaine ..."
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> The other 35 examples are of "toot" and "powder" used individually as
> slang terms for cocaine or of misspellings of "foot powder."
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> -Wilson
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