intoxicant
[in-tok-si-kuh nt]
Origin of intoxicant
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Contemporary Examples of intoxicant
The use of cannabis as an intoxicant began to take hold in America in the early 1900s.
Koon: Because I believed that this individual was under the influence of some intoxicant.
Historical Examples of intoxicant
Now, cheese on an empty mouse stomach acts as an intoxicant.
"Wee Tim'rous Beasties"Douglas English
Royal was teasing me, sure of my refusal to indulge in any intoxicant.
PatchworkAnna Balmer Myers
Which it did, as a matter of fact, but it was a tonic, 'stead of actin' like an intoxicant.
Rimrock TrailJ. Allan Dunn
Upon such occasions the only intoxicant was tobacco or dakka.
In the East it is commonly used as an intoxicant, either by smoking it, like tobacco, or swallowing it.
intoxicant
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