| 单词 | big c |
| 释义 | > as lemmasbig C big C n. originally U.S. (a) slang cocaine; (b) colloquial (euphemistic) (usually with the) cancer. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > diseases of tissue > [noun] > cancer cankereOE cancer1527 carcinoma1583 carcinomatosis1872 big C1959 scirrhus2003 1959 J. E. Schmidt Narcotics Lingo & Lore 16 Big C, cocaine as a drug used by addicts. 1963 Plain Dealer (Cleveland, Ohio) 17 June 17/2 Spurred by the American Cancer Society, no longer do we consider cancer to be taboo and we can say the word outright without whispering ‘Big C’. 1967 W. Murray Sweet Ride vii. 99 ‘He's had a lung removed.’ ‘The Big C?’ ‘Yes.’ 1984 H. D. Weaver Confronting Big C ii. 22 He is no longer afraid; he knows it is possible to conquer ‘the big C’. 1995 Independent (Nexis) 2 June 6 Clothing advertising ‘Big C’—cocaine—and ‘magic mushrooms’. 2004 H. Strachan Make a Skyf, Man! iii. 32 Cabinet ministers..shrieking that angina had struck, or the Big C got them in the brain or the balls. < as lemmas |
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