Any of a group of antibacterial peptides present in the larva of the beetle Acalolepta luxuriosa

plural of property ladder

Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see step, on. / (recreational drugs, transitive) to adulterate a drug for the purpose of increasing its bulk, and therefore its profit; to dilute, cut.

A tidal island of the Inner Hebrides, west of Mull and southeast of Iona.