Definition of "snootful" []

• A noseful. (noun)
• A significant ingested quantity of an alcoholic beverage. (noun)

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• "While Dr. Hinkle admits he has barely scratched the surface in his article, yet in "Street-Language Naming Practices in the Hispanic Dr.g and Underworld Subcultures," he goes into great detail and tells us quite a bit (e.g., that a snort of cocaine is called a narizón, from the Spanish nariz, ` nose, 'which compares to English slang' snootful ')."
• "I am getting a stiff breeze and a snootful of hypocrisy here by the spinmeisters of hypocrisy."
• "People began peeling off rolls of bills to pay and slipping little packets into their purses and pockets and then sliding off to the toilets to snort the first snootful."