Meaning of cement arm | Babel Free
Definitions
A person's arm that has scarred and hardened from the repeated injection of recreational drugs.
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.”
CEFR level
B2
Upper Intermediate
This word is part of the CEFR B2 vocabulary — upper intermediate level.
This word is part of the CEFR B2 vocabulary — upper intermediate level.
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