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Bolivian marching powder
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English
Etymology
Bolivia and Peru were the leading producer countries through most of the 1980s and 1990s.en https://www.seattletimes.com/nation-world/peru-now-top-cocaine-producer-followed-by-bolivia/ Peru now top cocaine producer, followed by Bolivia 2012-07-30 Chris Kraul The Seattle Times https://web.archive.org/web/20251207180513/https://www.seattletimes.com/nation-world/peru-now-top-cocaine-producer-followed-by-bolivia/ 7 December 2025
Pronunciation
en En-au-Bolivian marching powder.ogg AU
Noun
- Bolivian marching powder
en slang cocaine.
en Colombian marching powder Peruvian marching powder Thesaurus:cocaine
en w:Jay McInerney Bright Lights, Big City (novel) Bright Lights, Big City 1984 2 https://archive.org/details/brightlightsbigc0000mcin/page/2/mode/1up 0394726413 Your brain at this moment is composed of brigades of tiny Bolivian soldiers. They are tired and muddy from their long march through the night. There are holes in their boots and they are hungry. They need to be fed. They need the Bolivian Marching Powder.
en 1986 Robert Emmet Long Drugs and American Society For those enamored of the glitzy life, coke—snow, blow, nose candy, Bolivian Marching Powder—became the drug.
Nell's 200 McDermott's got on this wool suit by Lubiam with a linen pocket square by Ashear Bros., a Ralph Lauren cotton shirt and a silk tie by Christian Dior and he's about to toss a coin to see which one of us is going downstairs to fetch the Bolivian Marching Powder since neither one of us wants to sit here in the booth with the girls because though we probably want to fuck them, we don't want to, in fact can't, we've found out, talk to them, not even condescendingly—they simply have nothing to say and, I mean, I know we shouldn't be surprised by this but still it's somewhat disorienting.
en 2003 9781885211972 Mark St. Amant Sleepless in Florence Sean O'Reilly; Larry Habegger; James O'Reilly Hyenas Laughed at Me and Now I Know Why 148 https://archive.org/details/hyenaslaughedatm0000unse/page/148/mode/1up greedily inhale another ten lines of uncut Bolivian marching powder
en Maureen Dowd Ewan McGregor: Dahling, He’s Halston! The New York Times 2021-05-07 https://www.nytimes.com/2021/05/07/style/ewan-mcgregor-halston-netflix.html 0362-4331 Not quite as much fun as the real Halston, since Mr. McGregor was smoking green-tea cigarettes instead of Trues, snorting sugary, vitamin-like Inositol instead of Bolivian marching powder and, due to Covid restrictions, conjuring disco fever with just 48 extras in the Studio 54 scenes. https://web.archive.org/web/20251107224543/https://www.nytimes.com/2021/05/07/style/ewan-mcgregor-halston-netflix.html 7 November 2025
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