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needle park

n. A park where sterilized needles are made available to recreational drug users.

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Needle park
  • The Panic in Needle Park, a movie
  • Verdi Square in Manhattan
  • O'Bryant Square in Manhattan
  • Platzspitz park in Switzerland

Usage examples of "needle park".

Afterward, alone in his apartment, and despite his exhaustion, he couldn't sleep, so he went for a walk, wandering aimlessly for a while through the small, triangular plot of Needle Park near the Ansonia Hotel.

I took a walk around the bed, missing those stale chambers on the West Side, nicely epicene in their way, a touch of seedy glamour drifting in off Needle Park, pale tapering men who live for the films of the thirties.