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Definitions

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. n. Opium prepared for smoking.

Wiktionary

  1. n. An extract or preparation of opium, used in China and India for smoking.

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. n. An extract or preparation of opium, used in China and India for smoking.

Examples

  • “A buyer from that lab, a biochemist scouting for new sources, happened to arrive at the Thai outpost just as Smarty Pants II was landing there with a cargo of chandoo.”

    Villa Incognito

  • “Within an hour, thanks to Stubblefield's XXL personality and the demonstrable quality of the Fan Nan Nan chandoo, they made a deal.”

    Villa Incognito

  • “The stuff was barely fit for a peasant's pipe unless purified and turned into the paste called chandoo.”

    Villa Incognito

  • “The next step was the refinement of the chandoo paste into a powder that was a hop and a skip away from morphine, morphine being a jump away from heroin.”

    Villa Incognito

  • “He'd been comfortable neither with the raw O nor the chandoo, and now he took a stand.”

    Villa Incognito

  • “Thus, while chandoo might be a more profitable commodity than raw poppy bricks, the big bucks were in the dangerous and stupid stuff.”

    Villa Incognito

  • “It is prepared chandoo, not raw cake," says the Opium Queen pathetically.”

    Flashman and the Dragon

  • “It was only a step under the companion to where half a ton of the best chandoo was to be had; Josiah would never grudge a skewerful in such a good cause, I was sure.”

    Flashman and the Dragon

  • “Handsome pocket money, if you like - and easier to earn than falling off a log, for whatever the Pekin government said, the Hong merchants would cut Confucius's throat to buy a ton of chandoo, whoever offered it.”

    Flashman and the Dragon

  • “Gad, though, if that slut hadn't begged for a pipe of chandoo, I'd have been in a pretty fix, with Ward panicking, the Navy's suspicions aroused, and myself flat-footed when they came aboard and started rummaging.”

    Flashman And The Dragon

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