ENTRY NO. 0239 EXAMINED 2026-09-12 3 CONFIGURATIONS ON FILE

DUSTER

01 FASHION/CLOTHING 02 DRUGS 03 BASEBALL
SENSE 01 noun PREVALENCE 55%

Fashion/clothing

A long, lightweight coat that lets you swish into a room like you have somewhere important to be.
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Variations

  • duster coat
  • kimono duster
  • maxi duster
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Origin

The name comes from 19th-century travel gear literally meant to keep road dust off clothing during horseback and stagecoach rides. Westerns cemented its silhouette as a mark of quiet menace (see: every Eastwood squint), and streetwear later borrowed the length and drape for pure aesthetic effect, dust be damned.

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Examples

"She threw a camel duster over her jeans and suddenly looked like she owned the block."
"He wore an ankle-length black duster to the concert, which was either very cool or a fire hazard."
"The store's fall lineup was basically five colors of the same oversized duster."
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Cultural context

Popular in both western-revival and minimalist streetwear circles, the duster reads as effortless authority when styled right and costume-y when it isn't — deploy with confidence, not a horse.

SENSE 02 noun PREVALENCE 26%

Drugs

A cigarette or joint dipped in PCP, named for the drug's street name 'angel dust.'
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Variations

  • dust stick
  • dusted blunt
  • get dusted
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Origin

Derives from 'angel dust,' the decades-old street name for phencyclidine (PCP); a 'duster' is simply the delivery mechanism, usually a regular cigarette or joint soaked in liquid PCP. Documentation is thin outside police reports and local news, so exact coinage is unclear — nobody was taking minutes at that particular naming meeting.

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Examples

"He smoked a duster before his shift and ended up directing traffic that didn't exist."
"Local news blamed the incident on a duster laced with something even the dealer couldn't identify."
"She warned her cousin that dusters aren't a party drug — people jump through windows on that stuff."
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Cultural context

Surfaces mainly in police blotters, true-crime podcasts, and DMV-area news coverage of PCP-related violence; not slang you deploy for laughs, since the referent is a drug known for causing dissociation and dangerous behavior.

SENSE 03 noun PREVALENCE 19%

Baseball

A pitch thrown close enough to the batter's chin that ducking counts as reflex, not choice.
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Variations

  • dust him off
  • duster pitch
  • get dusted
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Origin

Old baseball slang, likely mid-20th century, built on the image of a batter literally hitting the dirt and getting dusty to avoid the ball. Distinct from but often confused with 'chin music,' which some old-timers insist is a different degree of menace entirely.

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Examples

"The pitcher sent a duster right under his chin after that showboat home run trot."
"Nothing wakes up a dugout like a duster in the first inning."
"That wasn't a duster, ump, the ball just slipped."
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Cultural context

Part of baseball's unwritten code of retaliation and respect, a duster signals 'we noticed' without technically starting a fight — though it often does anyway. Use it in baseball conversation to sound like someone who watched games before pitch clocks existed.

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