Meaning of cement arm | Babel Free

Definitions

A person's arm that has scarred and hardened from the repeated injection of recreational drugs.

slang

Examples

“[…] this use of codeine causing, in underworld parlance, a “cement arm”, hard lumps forming at the point of injection.”

“As the “cement arms” became more common, the earlier patients began to fall away. Some of them thought that the iron in the mixture was responsible, and asked Dr. Lilliendahl to leave it out of their prescriptions. But he never did.”

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