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bullet sponge
 n.— «…Temporary superhuman strength and imperviousness to pain.…Drugs can turn the drug user into a “bullet sponge”—someone who can literally…» —“Police Gunning To Boost Odds Drug Dealers Better Armed Than Officers” by Robert Hoiles Akron Beacon Journal (Ohio) Mar. 13, 1989. (source: Double-Tongued Dictionary)

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