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noun
noun, US

A drug overdose. (1959 —) .
J. Ellroy Terry Lux told him Loftis used to cop H for Claire; Marty Goines was snuffed by a heroin overjolt (1988).

[From over- + jolt noun, on the model of overdose noun.]


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