by Clyde Always

“Officials in New Zealand announced this week that they have completed
a massive seizure of cocaine at sea, calling it a ‘major financial blow’
to producers and traffickers of the drug.“
—High Times

Bootily, tootily,
Kiwi authorities
captured a boatload of
kilos and felt

lively enough to then
(idiomatically)
boast of the powerful
blow they had dealt.