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smack(4) (iou)



smack noun4. [smak] slang (orig. US). M20.
[Prob. alt. of SCHMECK.]
A hard drug, esp. heroin.

sandhill crane (sh)




Crane species (Grus canadensis family Gruidae), 35-43 in.

(90-110 cm) long, with a red crown, a bluish or brownish gray body tinged with sandy yellow, and a long, harsh, penetrating call. It is one of the oldest of all existing bird species. It breeds from Alaska to Hudson Bay; it formerly bred in south-central Canada and the Great Lakes region of the U.S. but is now uncommon in those regions. A smaller, nonmigratory subspecies breeds in Florida and southern Georgia. Sandhill cranes have been used as surrogate parents in efforts to save the whooping crane from extinction.