cocainomaniac
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
21
Scrabble Score
13
Letters
6
Syllables
6
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
Example Sentences
- "Of the three cocainomaniacs, two had epileptiform attacks and one got off with “cramps.”"
- "It may be affirmed that every delirious morphinomaniac is a cocainomaniac."
- "While delivering the final blow to the multi-million-dollar patent-medicine industry, the spectre of the black cocainomaniac—just what the doctor ordered— helped secure the image of the doctor as public benefactor, an image tarnished by a miracle “feel-good” drug, the prescription of which put a doctor on par with a cosmetologist or wine-merchant, who catered to whims rather than needs, and it is in keeping with the tradition of modern medical practice that shortly after the eradication of cocaine, the American medical community began touting a new “feel-good” drug—the amphetamines—synthetic, marketable, and well under the medical thumb—and probably the most dangerous piece of chemistry since Alfred Nobel gave us dynamite."