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Jenny Crank

Jenny Crank
 n.— «Young women are attracted to methamphetamine, counselors say, because it suppresses hunger. “Girls here have an inside joke,” said Mark Farley of the Tustin recovery center. “They call it the Jenny Crank diet.”» —“‘Meth’ speedily becoming O.C.‘s top drug woe” by Julio Laboy Orange County Register (California) Jan. 7, 1996. (source: Double-Tongued Dictionary)

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