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a habit-forming drug that is not addictive but its use may lead to the use of other addictive drugs
one college athlete recently called beer a gateway drug for young people
How To Use gateway drug In A Sentence
- Does this mean we can expect to hear the argument that a Big Mac is, in fact, a ‘gateway drug’ leading unwitting consumers on to mainline, say, half a pound of marge?
- Diet Coke's path to glory was paved by the long-forgotten Tab, whose bitter, saccharine flavor first hit the market in 1963, and can be considered the gateway drug to diet colas.
- The Heritage Memorandum repeats the claim that cannabis is a "gateway drug" that can lead users "to more dangerous drugs. Tim Lynch: Pot Shots at Prop 19 Fall Flat
- I think that fanfic is modern the gateway drug to writing – it certainly was in my case. Summer Workshops 2009 « BAHAY TALINHAGA
- one college athlete recently called beer a gateway drug for young people
- Jewcy editor Izzy Grinspan has a meditation on Counting Crows leadman Adam Duritz that hit a little close to home for this formerly moody high school student when she wrote, the Counting Crows became a sort of gateway drug — the last mainstream band they ever liked. Shabbat Surfing: Big Weekend For Jewish Films « The Blog at 16th and Q
- I decided I wasn't buying any more of the bunk Catholic school was feeding me when it came to boys, hussies, snowballs or kissing as gateway drug. Josey Vogels: Snowballs, Hussies and the Evils of Kissing
