See nang in All languages combined, or Wiktionary
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"ref": "1998 October 18, “noise” from hello.net.au and start.net.au, “H ?”, in alt.drugs.hard (Usenet):",
"text": "\"helicopters\" these days refers to those silly hats with propellers on top, which come with a free ounce of smack at any local K-mart.^([sic]) Y'know, next to the nangs (or bulbs - nitrous oxide for whipped cream).",
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"(Australia, New Zealand, slang) A metal bulb filled with nitrous oxide gas, inhaled for its disassociative effects, normally intended as a propellant for whipped cream."
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"text": "The wings were seriously a peng ting. The chips were nang. Burger was sick – the assembly was on point. The fillet was a serious ting – the thickness was there. Bossman did well.",
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"(UK, slang, chiefly MLE) excellent; awesome; masterful; deeply satisfying."
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"ref": "1998 October 18, “noise” from hello.net.au and start.net.au, “H ?”, in alt.drugs.hard (Usenet):",
"text": "\"helicopters\" these days refers to those silly hats with propellers on top, which come with a free ounce of smack at any local K-mart.^([sic]) Y'know, next to the nangs (or bulbs - nitrous oxide for whipped cream).",
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"(Australia, New Zealand, slang) A metal bulb filled with nitrous oxide gas, inhaled for its disassociative effects, normally intended as a propellant for whipped cream."
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