white lady

 

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white lady (countable and uncountable, plural white ladies)

1. (folklore) A female ghost dressed in white, who is associated with local legends of tragedy.
   • For quotations using this term, see Citations:white lady.
3. A sour cocktail made with gin or crème de menthe, triple sec or Cointreau, and a citrus juice, sometimes with an egg white.
4. (slang, Australia) Methylated spirit.
5. (uncountable, slang) Cocaine.

   Synonyms: white girl; see also Thesaurus:cocaine

6. (uncountable, slang) Heroin.

   Synonyms: see Thesaurus:heroin

7. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see white,‎ lady.

• black lady

• (cocaine; heroin): Tony Thorne (2014) “white lady”, in Dictionary of Contemporary Slang, 4th edition, London,  […]: Bloomsbury

• “white lady n. (methylated spirit)”, in Green’s Dictionary of Slang, Jonathon Green, 2016–present
• “white lady n. (cocaine, heroin)”, in Green’s Dictionary of Slang, Jonathon Green, 2016–present
•   white lady on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Unadapted borrowing from English white lady.

white lady

1. (folklore) a white lady (ghost)

For quotations using this term, see Citations:white lady.