[Ads-l] Antedating of "Dope Fiend"

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dope fiend (OED 1896)

1882 Oakland Daily Evening Tribune 17 May 3/3 (Newspapers.com)

The opium pill, which is used as a substitute by the "dope-fiend."

Fred Shapiro

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