an arrangement of five objects, as trees, in a square or rectangle, one at each corner and one in the middle.
the offspring of a zebra and a donkey.
a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question.
an arrangement of five objects, as trees, in a square or rectangle, one at each corner and one in the middle.
late 14c., "to snore," probably related to snore. Meaning "breathe through the nose with a harsh sound" first recorded 1530. Sense of "express contempt" is from 1818. Meaning "a drink of liquor" (especially whiskey) is from 1889. The verb meaning "to inhale cocaine" is first attested 1935.
tv. & in. to sniff (insufflate) a powdered drug, now usually cocaine. (Drugs.) : Here, snort this.
n. a nasal dose of a drug, usually cocaine. : I don't want a snort. I'm clean, and I'm going to stay that way.
Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions by Richard A. Spears.Fourth Edition. Copyright 2007. Published by McGraw Hill.
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