"fishscale" meaning in English

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  "etymology_text": "From fish + scale, from its appearance as shiny yellowish flakes resembling the scales of a fish, as opposed to dull white powder.",
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          "ref": "1989, Terry Williams, chapter 2, in The Cocaine Kids: The Inside Story of a Teenage Drug Ring, page 41",
          "text": "The kids out here don't know a flake from a fish—if you asked them what fishscale is, they wouldn't know. [Fishscale is high-grade cocaine powder with few rock-like chunks.]",
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          "ref": "2011, Boston George, Caroline McGill, Soft: Cocaine Love Stories, unnumbered page",
          "text": "Oh shit, it was Fishscale! It was love at first sight. He nearly fell back in his chair. \"No mothafuckin' way!\" he yelled. He jumped up and danced a little two-step jig and thanked his lucky stars for the come-up. Fishscale cocaine! It was fucking Fishscale!",
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          "ref": "2015, Duane Swierczynski, Canary, unnumbered page",
          "text": "\"You can get anything on here—isn't it incredible?\" Slick Guy continues. \"I couldn't believe it, either. I mean anything. MDMA from Holland, high-end weed, fish-scale coke, whatever.",
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        "(slang, idiomatic) Cocaine, usually of high quality taken directly off the brick and uncut."
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          "ref": "1989, Terry Williams, chapter 2, in The Cocaine Kids: The Inside Story of a Teenage Drug Ring, page 41",
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          "ref": "2011, Boston George, Caroline McGill, Soft: Cocaine Love Stories, unnumbered page",
          "text": "Oh shit, it was Fishscale! It was love at first sight. He nearly fell back in his chair. \"No mothafuckin' way!\" he yelled. He jumped up and danced a little two-step jig and thanked his lucky stars for the come-up. Fishscale cocaine! It was fucking Fishscale!",
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