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"ref": "1897, “San Francisco: The Golden Gate as Seen Through New York Eyes”, in The Tammany Times, volumes 10-11, page 4",
"text": "We had several exhibitions of opium smoking, or \"hitting the pipe.\" Every \"pipe-hitter\" seemed to feel glorious.",
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"ref": "1912, Thomas Watson Houston, Mey Wing: A Romance of Cathay, page 83",
"text": "And so in his indolent way he drifted gradually into the habit and became a confirmed \"pipe-hitter.\"",
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"ref": "1988, Charles Leland Sonnichsen, Pilgrim in the Sun: A Southwestern Omnibus",
"text": "I frequently play 'em to 'double out' but I've been playing 'colors' lately, for they've had me locked up with a drunken coon, a Greaser horse-thief, and a Chinese pipe-hitter.",
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"ref": "2010, Arno Michaels, My Life After Hate, page 44",
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"A person that smokes drugs (especially opium) from a pipe."
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"(informal) A person that smokes drugs (especially opium) from a pipe."
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"ref": "2008, Brad Thor, The First Commandment",
"text": "This guy is one serious tackdriving pipe-hitter. If we're going to go after somebody this experienced, this dangerous, I think we deserve to know what he's really up to.",
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"ref": "2015, Jay Posey, Sungrazer",
"text": "Despite his outer appearance of a hard-charging pipehitter, Sahil had a genuine gift for empathy.",
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"ref": "2016, Marc Wolfman, Suicide Squad: The Official Movie Novelization",
"text": "I'll build you a team of pipe-hitters who'll do anything you can dream up.",
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"ref": "1897, “San Francisco: The Golden Gate as Seen Through New York Eyes”, in The Tammany Times, volumes 10-11, page 4",
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},
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"ref": "1988, Charles Leland Sonnichsen, Pilgrim in the Sun: A Southwestern Omnibus",
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},
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