"cement arm" meaning in English

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Noun

Forms: cement arms [plural]
Head templates: {{en-noun}} cement arm (plural cement arms)
  1. (slang) A person's arm that has scarred and hardened from the repeated injection of recreational drugs. Tags: slang
    Sense id: en-cement_arm-en-noun-jKeIH1Kc Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header

Inflected forms

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