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Party drug: after small quantity, I felt the hit (6)

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I believe the answer is:

touche

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'i felt the hit' is the definition.
I don't know anything about this answer so I can't judge whether it can be defined by this definition.

'party drug after small quantity' is the wordplay.
'party drug' becomes 'e' (E is another name for ecstasy. I am not sure about the 'party' bit.).
'after' means one lot of letters go next to another.
'small quantity' becomes 'touch' (I've seen this before).
'e' put after 'touch' is 'TOUCHE'.

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(Other definitions for touche that I've seen before include "Fencer's shout" , "Acknowledgment of a hit in fencing" , "You got me" , "Acknowledgement of fencing hit or valid criticism" , "Acknowledgement of a good point" .)

I've seen this clue in The Guardian.
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