| STREET TERM |
DEFINITION |
| 420 |
Marijuana use |
| A-boot |
Under the influence of drugs |
| Abandominiums |
Abandoned row houses where drugs are used |
| Acid head |
User of LSD |
| Ad |
PCP; drug addict |
| Agonies |
Withdrawal symptoms |
| All lit up |
Under the influence of drugs |
| All star |
User of multiple drugs |
| Amp head |
LSD user |
| Amped |
High on amphetamines |
| Amped-out |
Fatigue after using amphetamine |
| Amping |
Accelerated heartbeat |
| Are you anywhere? |
Do you use marijuana? |
| Around the turn |
Having gone through withdrawal period |
| Artillery |
Equipment for injecting drugs |
| Author |
Doctor who writes illegal prescriptions |
| Babe |
Drug used for detoxification |
| Baby habit |
Occasional use of drugs |
| Babysit |
Guide someone through first drug experience |
| Back door |
Residue left in a pipe |
| Back jack |
Injecting opium; to inject a drug |
| Backtrack |
Allow blood to flow back into a needle during injection |
| Backup |
To prepare a vein for injection |
| Bad go |
Bad reaction to a drug |
| Bag |
Container for drugs; a package of drugs, usually marijuana or
heroin; a person's favorite drug |
| Bag bride |
Crack-smoking prostitute |
| Bag man |
Person who transports money; a person who supplies narcotics
or other drugs, a pusher |
| Bagging |
Using inhalants |
| Banana split |
Combination of 2C-B (Nexus) with other illicit substances, particularly
LSD (Lysergic acid diethylamide) |
| Bang |
Inhalants; to inject a drug |
| Banging |
Under the influence of drugs |
| Base crazies |
Searching on hands and knees for cocaine or crack |
| Base head |
A person who bases |
| Based out |
To have lost control over basing |
| Batt |
IV needle; hypodermic needle |
| Batted out |
Apprehended by law |
| Beamer |
Crack smoker |
| Bed bugs |
Fellow addicts |
| Bedbugs |
Fellow addicts |
| Beedies |
Cigarettes from India (resemble marijuana joints/vehicle for
other drugs) |
| Belt |
Effects of drugs |
| Belted |
Under the influence of a drug |
| Bender |
Drug party |
| Bingers |
Crack addicts |
| Bingo |
To inject a drug |
| Bipping |
Snorting heroin and cocaine, either separately or together |
| Black hole |
The depressant high associated with ketamine |
| Blanks |
Low quality drugs |
| Blast |
Cocaine; Smoke crack; Marijuana; smoke marijuana or crack |
| Blasted |
Under the influence of drugs |
| Blow a fix/blow a shot |
Injection misses the vein and is wasted in the skin |
| Blow the vein |
To inject a drug |
| Boost |
Crack Cocaine; to steal; to inject a drug |
| Boost and shoot |
Steal to support a habit |
| Boot |
To inject a drug |
| Booted |
Under the influence of drugs |
| Break night |
Staying up all night on a cocaine binge until daybreak |
| Bridge or bring up |
Ready a vein for injection |
| Broker |
Go between in a drug deal; heavy drug user |
| Buffer |
A woman who performs oral sex in exchange for crack; crack smoker |
| Bugged |
Irritated; to be covered with sores and abscesses from repeated
use of unsterile needles |
| Bummer trip |
Unsettling and threatening experience from PCP intoxication |
| Bump |
Crack; fake crack; cocaine; boost a high; hit of ketamine ($20) |
| Burn the main line |
To inject a drug |
| Burned out |
Collapse of veins from repeated injections; permanent impairment
from drug abuse |
| Burnout |
Heavy abuser of drugs |
| Buzz |
Under the influence of drugs |
| Cabbage head |
An individual who will use or experiment with any kind of drug |
| Cafeteria use |
Use of various drugs simultaneously, particularly sedatives or
hypnotics |
| Cafeteria-style use |
Using a combination of different club drugs |
| Candy Raver |
Young people who attend raves; rave attendees who wear candy
jewelry |
| Cap |
Crack Cocaine; LSD; a capsule of a drug |
| Carry |
To be in posession of drugs |
| Channel |
Vein into which a drug is injected |
| Channel swimmer |
One who injects heroin |
| Charged up |
Under the influence of drugs |
| Chasing the tiger |
To smoke heroin |
| Chicken scratch |
Searching on hands and knees for crack or cocaine |
| Chipper |
Occasional user; occasional heroin user; occasional Hispanic
user |
| Chipping |
Using drugs occasionally |
| Choco-fan |
Heroin |
| Clam bake |
Sitting inside a car or other small, enclosed space and smoking
marijuana |
| Clear up |
Stop drug use |
| Cluck |
Crack smoker |
| Coasting |
Under the influence of drugs |
| Cold turkey |
Sudden withdrawal from drugs |
| Come home |
End a "trip" from LSD |
| Cook down |
Process in which users liquify heroin in order to inhale it |
| Cooker |
To inject a drug; person who manufactures methamphetamine |
| Cotton fever |
Critically high temperature associated with accidentally injecting
cotton fibers into blood stream |
| Crack Kits |
Glass pipe and copper mesh |
| Cracker jack |
Crack smoker |
| Cranking up |
To inject a drug |
| Crankster |
Someone who uses or manufatures methamphetamine |
| Crash |
Sleep off effects of drugs |
| Crisscrossing |
The practice of setting up a line of cocaine next to a line of
heroin. The user places a straw in each nostril
and snorts about half of each line. Then the
straws are crossed and the remaining lines
are snorted |
| Cushion |
Vein into which a drug is injected |
| Dabble |
Use drugs occasionally |
| Demo |
Crack stem; sample-size quantity of crack |
| Dinosaurs |
Populations of heroin users in their forties and fifties |
| Disease |
Drug of choice |
| Dog |
Good friend |
| Dope fiend |
A person who is drug dependent; crack adict |
| Draw up |
To inject a drug |
| Drop |
To swallow drugs |
| Dropper |
To inject a drug |
| Dry up |
To inject drugs |
| Due |
Residue of oils trapped in a pipe after smoking base |
| Dump |
To vomit after taking drugs |
| E-puddle |
Sleeping due to MDMA use/exhaustion |
| Eating |
Taking a drug orally |
| Elephant flipping |
Use of PCP and MDMA |
| Emergency gun |
Instrument used to inject other than a syringe |
| Explorers club |
Group of LSD users |
| Feenin |
Behavior associated with a person craving cocaine or other addictive
substances when they are unavailable |
| Fiend |
Someone who smokes marijuana alone |
| Fire |
Crack and methamphetamine; to inject a drug |
| Five-way |
Combines snorting of heroin, cocaine, methamphetamine, ground
up flunitrazepam pills, and drinking alcohol |
| Fix |
To inject a drug |
| Flag |
Appearance of blood in the vein |
| Flame cooking |
Smoking cocaine base by putting the pipe over a stove flame |
| Flash |
LSD; the rush of cocaine injection |
| Flying |
Under the influence of drugs |
| Following that cloud |
Searching for drugs |
| Fuete |
Hypodermic needle |
| G |
$1000 or 1 gram of drugs; term for an unfamiliar male; Gamma
hydroxybutyrate (GHB) |
| G-shot |
Small dose of drugs used to hold off withdrawal symptoms until
full dose can be taken |
| Gaffus |
Hypodermic needle |
| Gangster |
Marijuana; person who uses or manufactures methamphetamine |
| Garbage heads |
Users who buy crack from street dealers instead of cooking it
themselves |
| Geezer |
To inject a drug |
| Geezin a bit of dee gee |
To inject a drug |
| Get down |
To inject a drug |
| Get lifted |
Under the influence of drugs |
| Get off |
To inject a drug; get "high" |
| Get off houses |
Private places heroin users can purchase & use heroin for a fee |
| Getting snotty |
Using heroin |
| Ghostbusting |
Smoking cocaine; searching for white particles in the belief
that they are crack |
| Gimmick |
Drug injection equipment |
| Give wings |
Inject someone or teach someone to inject heroin |
| Glading |
Using inhalant |
| Glass |
Heroin; amphetamine; hypodermic needle; methamphetamine |
| Glass gun |
Hypodermic needle |
| Gluey |
One who sniffs or inhales glue |
| Go into a sewer |
To inject a drug; inject in the vein |
| Gone, Shot to the curb |
Lost everything to crack |
| Good lick |
Good drugs |
| Graduate |
Completely stop using drugs; progress to stronger drugs |
| Gravy |
Heroin; to inject a drug |
| Ground control |
The guide or caretaker during a hallucinogenic experience |
| Gun |
To inject a drug; needle; hypodermic needle |
| Gutter |
Vein into which a drug is injected |
| Gutter junkie |
Addict who relies on others to obtain drugs |
| Hammerheading |
MDMA (methylenedioxymethamphetamine) used in combination with
Viagra |
| Hayron |
Heroin |
| Henpecking |
Searching on hands and knees for crack |
| Highbeams |
The wide eyes of a person on crack |
| Hippieflip |
Use of mushrooms and MDMA (methylenedioxymethamphetamine) |
| Hit house |
House where users go to shoot up and leave the owner drugs as
payment |
| Hit the main line |
To inject a drug |
| Hit the needle |
To inject a drug |
| Hit the pit |
To inject a drug |
| Hitter |
Little pipe designed for only one hit |
| Hitting up |
To inject a drug |
| Holding |
Possessing drugs |
| Honeymoon |
Early stages of drug use before addiction or dependency develops |
| Hooked |
Addicted |
| Hopped up |
Under the influence of drugs |
| Horn |
To inhale cocaine; Crack pipe; to inhale a drug |
| Hot load/hot shot |
Lethal injection of a narcotic |
| Hot rolling |
Liquefying methamphetamine in an eye dropper and then inhaling
it |
| Hubba pigeon |
Crack users looking for rocks on the floor after a police raid |
| Huffer |
Inhalant abuser |
| Huffing |
To sniff an inhalant |
| Hulling |
Using others to get drugs |
| Hype |
Heroin addict; an addict |
| Hype stick |
Hypodermic needle |
| Ice cream habit |
Occasional use of drugs |
| Jab/job |
To inject a drug |
| Jack |
Steal someone else's drugs |
| Jack-up |
To inject a drug |
| Jag |
Keep a high going |
| Jive |
Marijuana; heroin; drugs |
| Jolly pop |
Casual user of heroin |
| Jolt |
Strong reaction to drugs; to inject a drug |
| Jonesing |
Need for drugs |
| Joy pop |
To inject a drug |
| Joy popping |
Occasional use of drugs |
| Junkie |
Addict |
| Junkie kits |
Glass pipe and copper mesh |
| K-hole |
Periods of ketamine-induced confusion; the depressant high associated
with ketamine |
| Kick |
Inhalants; getting off a drug habit |
| Kiddie dope |
Prescription drugs |
| Kit |
Equipment used to inject drugs |
| Kitty flipping |
Use of ketamine and MDMA |
| Klingons |
Crack addicts |
| Laugh and scratch |
To inject a drug |
| Lay-out |
Equipment for taking drugs |
| Leaping |
Under the influence of drugs |
| Legal speed |
Over the counter asthma drug; trade name-MiniThin |
| Lemonade |
Heroin; poor quality drugs |
| Lipton Tea |
Poor quality drugs |
| Lit up |
Under the influence of drugs |
| Loaded |
High |
| Loused |
Covered by sores and abscesses from repeated use of unsterile
needles |
| Love flipping |
Use of mescaline and MDMA |
| Mainline |
To inject a drug |
| Mainliner |
Person who injects into the vein |
| Meth head |
Methamphetamine regular user |
| Meth monster |
One who has a violent reaction to methamphetamine |
| Miss |
To inject a drug |
| Mix |
A term used to refer to cocaine or a drug environment |
| Monkey |
Cigarette made from cocaine paste and tobacco; drug dependency;
heroin |
| Mouth worker |
One who takes drugs orally |
| Nexus flipping |
Use of Nexus (2-CB) and MDMA |
| Nickelonians |
Crack addicts |
| Nix |
Stranger among the group |
| On a mission |
Searching for crack and/or being high on crack |
| On a trip |
Under the influence of drugs |
| On the bricks |
Walking the streets |
| On the nod |
Under the influence of narcotics or depressant |
| Panic |
Drugs not available |
| Party pack |
Combination of 2C-B (Nexus) with other illicit drugs, particulary
MDMA (methylenedioxymethamphetamine; ecstasy) |
| Peeper(s) |
MDMA user(s) |
| Pepsi habit |
Occasional use of drugs |
| Pharming |
Consuming a mixture of prescription substances |
| Picking |
Searching on hands and knees for cocaine or crack |
| Piggybacking |
Simultaneous injection of 2 drugs |
| Ping-in-wing |
To inject a drug |
| Pipe |
Crack pipe; marijuana pipe; vein into which a drug is injected;
mix drugs with other substances |
| Plant |
Hiding place for drugs |
| Puffer |
Crack smoker |
| Pusher |
Metal hanger or umbrella rod used to scrape residue out of crack
stems; one who sells drugs |
| Rave |
All night dance parties frequently designed to enhance a hallucinogenic
experience through music and lights |
| Razed |
Under the influence of drugs |
| Red |
Under the influence of drugs |
| Res |
Potent residue left as a result of smoking crack which is scraped
and smoked |
| Riding the wave |
Under the influence of drugs |
| Rig |
Equipment used to inject drugs |
| Rock star |
Female who trades sex for crack or money to buy crack; a person
who uses rock cocaine |
| Rockette |
Female who uses crack |
| Roid rage |
Aggressive behavior caused by excessive steroid use |
| Roller |
To inject a drug |
| Satch cotton |
Fabric used to filter a solution of narcotics before injection |
| Serial speedballing |
Sequencing cocaine, cough syrup, and heroin over a 1-2 day period |
| Sewer |
Vein into which a drug is injected |
| Sharps |
Hypodermic needles |
| Shoot/shoot up |
To inject a drug |
| Shooting gallery |
Place where drugs are used |
| Shot |
To inject a drug; an amount of cocaine; 10 shot or 20 shot |
| Shot down |
Under the influence of drugs |
| Shot to the curb |
A person who has lost it all to crack |
| Shotgun |
Inhaling marijuana smoke forced into one's mouth by another's
exhaling |
| Skeegers/skeezers |
Crack-smoking prostitute |
| Sketching |
Coming down from a speed induced high |
| Skied |
Under the influence of drugs |
| Skin popping |
Injecting drugs under the skin; to inject drugs on any part of
the body without hitting a vein |
| Slam |
To inject a drug |
| Slanging |
Selling drugs |
| Smoke-out |
Under the influence of drugs |
| Sniff |
To inhale cocaine; methcathinone; inhalants |
| Snorting |
Using inhalant |
| Snotballs |
Rubber cement rolled into balls, burned and the fumes are inhaled |
| Speed freak |
Habitual user of methamphetamine |
| Speedballing |
To shoot up or smoke a mixture of cocaine and heroin; ecstasy
mixed with ketamine; the simultaneous use
of a stimulant with a depressant |
| Speedballs-nose-style |
The practice of snorting cocaine |
| Spike |
Heroin cut with scopolamine or strychnine; to inject a drug;
needle; hypodermic needle |
| Split |
Adulterated drugs; to leave; half and half or to leave |
| Spoon |
1/16 ounce of heroin; paraphernalia used to prepare heroin for
injection |
| Sprung |
Person just starting to use drugs |
| Stacking |
Taking steroids without a prescription |
| Stash |
Place to hide drugs |
| Stoned |
Under the influence of drugs |
| Strung out |
Heavily addicted to drugs |
| Tecatos |
Hispanic heroin addict |
| Thing |
Cocaine; Crack Cocaine; heroin; main drug interest at the momement. |
| Thirst monster |
Crack smoker |
| Tie |
To inject a drug |
| Tools |
Equipment used for injecting drugs |
| Torch cooking |
Smoking cocaine base by using a propane or butaine torch as a
source of flame |
| Totally spent |
Hangover feeling that is an adverse effect of methylenedioxymethamphetamine
(MDMA) |
| Track |
To inject a drug |
| Tracks |
Row of needle marks on a person |
| Trails |
Cocaine; LSD induced perception that moving objects leave multiple
images or trails behind them |
| Train |
Heroin |
| Trap |
Hiding place for drugs |
| Trays |
Bunches of vials |
| Turned on |
Introduced to drugs; under the influence |
| Tweak mission |
A person on a mission to find crack |
| Tweaker |
Crack user looking for drugs on the floor after a police raid |
| Tweaking |
Drug-induced paranoia; peaking on speed; desperately searching
for crack |
| Twists |
Small plastic bags of heroin secured with a twist tie |
| Viper |
Marijuana smoker |
| Wasted |
Under the influence of drugs; murdered |
| Weightless |
High on crack |
| Wigging |
Odd behavior resulting from the use of mind-altering drugs |
| Works |
Equipment for injecting drugs |
| Yen sleep |
Restless, drowsy state after LSD use |
| Zombie |
PCP; heavy user of drugs |
| Zonked |
Extremely high on drugs |
