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inhaling fumes off heroin burnt on silver foil
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much debate about this: According to my information (1894 Brewer, and the modern Cassell's, Oxford, Morton, and various other sources) Joey was originally, from 1835 or 1836 a silver fourpenny piece called a groat (Brewer is firm about this), and this meaning subsequently transferred to the silver threepenny piece (Cassell's, Oxford, and Morton). I'm convinced these were the principal and most common usages of the Joey coin slang. Cassell's says Joey was also used for the brass-nickel threepenny bit, which was introduced in 1937, although as a child in South London the 1960s I cannot remember the threepenny bit ever being called a Joey, and neither can my Mum or Dad, who both say a Joey in London was a silver threepence and nothing else (although they'd be too young to remember groats...). I'm informed however (ack Stuart Taylor, Dec 2006) that Joey was indeed slang for the brass-nickel threepenny bit among children of the Worcester area in the period up to decimalisation in 1971, so as ever, slang is subject to regional variation. I personally feel (and think I recall) there was some transference of the Joey slang to the sixpence (tanner) some time after the silver threepenny coin changed to the brass threepenny bit (which was during the 1930-40s), and this would have been understandable because the silver sixpence was similar to the silver threepence, albeit slightly larger. There is also a view that Joey transferred from the threepenny bit to the sixpence when the latter became a more usual minimum fare in London taxi-cabs. So although the fourpenny groat and the silver threepenny coin arguably lay the major claim to the Joey title, usage also seems to have extended to later coins, notably the silver sixpence (tanner) and the brass-nickel threepenny bit. The Joey slang word seems reasonably certainly to have been named after the politician Joseph Hume (1777-1855), who advocated successfully that the fourpenny groat be reintroduced, which it was in 1835 or 1836, chiefly to foil London cab drivers (horse driven ones in those days) in their practice of pretending not to have change, with the intention of extorting a bigger tip, particularly when given two shillings for a two-mile fare, which at the time cost one shilling and eight-pence. The re-introduction of the groat thus enabled many customers to pay the exact fare, and so the cab drivers used the term Joey as a derisory reference for the fourpenny groats.
n 1. To gossip about. 2. To ruin, foil, or defeat.dish it out To deal out criticism or abuse.
Euchre is slang for to defeat or foil thoroughly in any scheme.
Noun. Bonfire Night. An annual celebration of the foiling of an attempt to blow up The Houses of Parliament in 1605.
A boat with wing-like foils mounted on struts below the hull, lifting the hull entirely out of the water at speed and allowing water resistance to be greatly reduced. Example: HMCS Bras D'or
  A type of finish that has high shine and a metallic base with very fine particles which creates a sparkly but smooth, finish.
street quantity of cocaine sold in small folded paper bag or foil packets
Vrb phrs. To smoke heroin by burning the drug on foil and inhaling the smoke through a tube.
Jimmy Boyle is London Cockney rhyming slang for kitchen foil.
A technique used to remove glitter or gel nail polish. Using a cotton ball/cotton pad and pure acetone, place the cotton ball/pad on the nail, then wrap foil around it and leave it sitting for 5-10 minutes. Glitter or gel polish should slide right off. (Tutorial).
street quantity of heroin sold in small folded paper bag or foil packets
street quantity of amphetamine sold in small folded paper bag or foil packets
the foil used when smoking heroin (rhyming slang. . . .Jimmy Boyle/foil)
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p. pr. & vb. n.
of Foil
n.
An ornamental foliation having four lobes, or foils.
n.
One who foils or frustrates.
n.
An elementary substance found as an oxide in the mineral cassiterite, and reduced as a soft white crystalline metal, malleable at ordinary temperatures, but brittle when heated. It is not easily oxidized in the air, and is used chiefly to coat iron to protect it from rusting, in the form of tin foil with mercury to form the reflective surface of mirrors, and in solder, bronze, speculum metal, and other alloys. Its compounds are designated as stannous, or stannic. Symbol Sn (Stannum). Atomic weight 117.4.
v. t.
To blunt; to dull; to spoil; as, to foil the scent in chase.
n.
An ornamental foliation consisting of three divisions, or foils.
n.
The act, art, or process of covering or coating anything with melted tin, or with tin foil, as kitchen utensils, locks, and the like.
n.
A foil.
v. t.
To cover with tin or tinned iron, or to overlay with tin foil.
imp. & p. p.
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v. t.
A kind of cudgel; also, a blunt-edged sword used as a foil.
n.
A shining material used for ornamental purposes; especially, a very thin, gauzelike cloth with much gold or silver woven into it; also, very thin metal overlaid with a thin coating of gold or silver, brass foil, or the like.
a.
Capable of being foiled.
n.
The mercury and foil on the back of a looking-glass.
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Thin tin plate; also, tin foil for mirrors.
n.
A leaf or very thin sheet of metal; as, brass foil; tin foil; gold foil.
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The space between the cusps in Gothic architecture; a rounded or leaflike ornament, in windows, niches, etc. A group of foils is called trefoil, quatrefoil, quinquefoil, etc., according to the number of arcs of which it is composed.
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