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Boy

Heroin. Although this coded use of the standard word became common in the 1990s, it originated in US street slang of the 1920s. Its ultimate derivation is obscure, but may possibly evoke the image of a boy as an ever-present serv- ant or a term of address for a slave.

He was trying to score some boy.

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