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coke bugs
 n.pl.— «Coke can in extreme cases dissolve the septum that divides your nostrils and bring on paranoid psychoses ad sensory hallucinations known as “coke bugs.”» —“Cocaine in Washington” by Gordon Chaplin Washington Post Magazine June 5, 1977. (source: Double-Tongued Dictionary)

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