hard

en-noun

hard (countable and uncountable, plural hards)

From Middle English hard, from Old English heard, from Proto-West Germanic *hard(ī), from Proto-Germanic *harduz, from Proto-Indo-European *kort-ús, from *kret- (“strong, powerful”). Cognate with German hart, Swedish hård, Ancient Greek κρατύς (kratús), Sanskrit क्रतु (krátu), Avestan 𐬑𐬭𐬀𐬙𐬎 (xratu).

(uncountable, drugs, slang) Crack cocaine.


rail

→ Catalan: rail

→ Dutch: rail

→ French: rail

→ Japanese: レール (rēru)

→ Punjabi: ਰੇਲ (rel)

→ Spanish: raíl

→ Swahili: reli

→ Tibetan: རི་ལི (ri li, “train”)

From Middle English rail, rayl, *reȝel, *reȝol (found in reȝolsticke (“a ruler”)), partly from Old English regol (“a ruler, straight bar”) and partly from Old French reille; both from Latin regula (“rule, bar”), from regō (“to rule, to guide, to govern”); see regular. Doublet of regal, regula, rigol, and rule.

doublet

Do a couple rails and chase your own tail

(drugs) A large line (portion or serving of a powdery illegal drug).


rail

en-verb

rail (third-person singular simple present rails, present participle railing, simple past and past participle railed)

rails (present singular third-person)
railing (participle present)
railed (participle past)
railed (past)

All I can think about is being seventeen days sober and desperate to rail a line of blow after last night's group outing to see Sofia Coppola's The Bling Ring (at my request), which, in hindsight, was a fucking dumb thing for a rehab to approve of.

2025 May 27, Tommy Dorfman, “Finding God”, in Maybe This Will Save Me: A Memoir of Art, Addiction and Transformation, Harlequin, →ISBN:

(transitive, slang, drugs) To snort a line of powdered drugs.


ice

Bislama: aes

→ Brunei Malay: ais

→ Japanese: アイス (aisu)

→ Korean: 아이스 (aiseu)

→ Malay: ais

→ Marshallese: aej, aij

→ Sinhalese: අයිස් (ayis)

→ Tokelauan: aiha

From Middle English is, from Old English īs (“ice”), from Proto-West Germanic *īs, from Proto-Germanic *īsą (“ice”) from Proto-Indo-European *h₁eyH- (“ice, frost”).
Cognates
See also Saterland Frisian Íes, West Frisian iis, Dutch ijs, German Low German Ies, German Eis, Danish, Norwegian, and Swedish is; also Lithuanian ýnis (“glazed frost”), Russian и́ней (ínej, “hoarfrost”), Ossetian их (ix), ех (ex, “ice”), Persian یخ (yax), Northern Kurdish qeş. Superseded non-native Middle English glace (“ice”), borrowed from Old French glace (“ice”).

der

There were times when she could tell the Washingtons were overwhelmed by Jahlil's difficult ways, and one time Jessie even had the nerve to ask Carmiesha if she had smoked anything like crack or ice while she was pregnant with him.

2006, Noire [pseudonym], Thug-A-Licious: An Urban Erotic Tale, New York, N.Y.: One World, Ballantine Books, →ISBN, page 122:

(drugs) The crystal form of amphetamine-based drugs.


mission

en-noun

mission (countable and uncountable, plural missions)

Learned borrowing from Latin missiō, missiōnem (“a sending, sending away, dispatching, discharging, release, remission, cessation”).


bang

en-verb

bang (third-person singular simple present bangs, present participle banging, simple past and past participle banged)

bangs (present singular third-person)
banging (participle present)
banged (participle past)
banged (past)
bang (infinitive)
bang (first-person present singular)
banged (first-person past singular)
bang (present second-person singular)
bangest (archaic present second-person singular)
banged (past second-person singular)
bangedst (archaic past second-person singular)
bangs (present singular third-person)
bangeth (archaic present singular third-person)
banged (past singular third-person)
bang (plural present)
banged (past plural)
bang (present subjunctive)
banged (past subjunctive)
bang (imperative present)
banging (participle present)
banged (participle past)
bangue (alternative)

From Middle English *bangen, from Old English *bangian or borrowed from Old Norse banga (“to pound, hammer”); both from Proto-Germanic *bangōną (“to beat, pound”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰen- (“to beat, hit, injure”). Cognate with Scots bang, bung (“to strike, bang, hurl, thrash, offend”), Icelandic banga (“to pound, hammer”), Old Swedish bånga ("to hammer"; whence modern Swedish banka (“to knock, pound, bang”)), Danish banke (“to beat”), bengel (“club”), Low German bangen, bangeln (“to strike, beat”), West Frisian bingel, bongel, Dutch bengel (“bell; rascal”), German Bengel (“club”), bungen (“to throb, pulsate”).
In the sense of a fringe of hair, from bang off.
In the sense of abrupt left turn, from Boston left and associated risk of a crash.

gl

"to hammer"; whence modern Swedish <i class="Latn mention" lang="sv">banka</i> (“to knock, pound, bang”)

Audio (US)

Do you smoke meth? No, I bang it.

(transitive, slang, drugs) To inject intravenously.


carburetor

carburetors (plural)
carburator (alternative)
carburettor (alternative)
carbureter (alternative)
carburetter (alternative)

/ˈkɑːb(j)əˌɹɛtə/

Attested from 1862, from carburet (“enrich an illuminating gas with carbon-rich fuel”) + -or. The motor vehicle sense is attested since 1896

affix

carburet<t:enrich an illuminating gas with carbon-rich fuel>

Variations on the bong included air-driven pipes, electric pipes, ice pipes (chillers), mask pipes, chamber pipes, and carburetor pipes.

1989, United States International Trade Commission, Importation of certain drug paraphernalia into the United States, page 8:

Some pipes feature a “carburetor,” which is a small hole in the air chamber located past the bowl. The carburetor is held shut while the bowl is being lit and the smoke drawn.

2008, Dale Gieringer, Ed Rosenthal, Gregory Carter, Marijuana Medical Handbook, page 172:

en:any of certain types of drug paraphernalia

(slang, drugs) A water pipe or bong; a device or contrivance for mixing air with burning cannabis or cocaine.


grasshopper

/ˈɡɹɑːsˌhɒpə(ɹ)/

/ɡɹæsˌhɒpə(ɹ)/

/ˈɡɹæsˌhɑpəɹ/

From Middle English grashoppere, alteration of earlier grashoppe, from Old English græshoppa (“grasshopper”). Equivalent to grass + hopper. Cognate with Saterland Frisian Gäärshupper, Dutch grashupper, grashipper, German Low German Grashüpper, Gresshüpper, German Grashüpfer, Danish græshoppe, Swedish gräshoppa, Norwegian gresshoppe.

(slang, drugs) A frequent user of marijuana.


off

(older Received Pronunciation, General American) -ɔːf

From Middle English of, from Old English of, af, æf (“from, off, away”), from Proto-West Germanic *ab, from Proto-Germanic *ab (“from”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₂epo (“from, off, back”). Doublet of of.
Cognates
Cognate with Scots of, af (“off, away”), West Frisian af, ôf (“off, away”), Dutch af (“off, from”), German Low German of (“off, from”), German ab (“off, from”), Danish af (“of, off”), Norwegian Bokmål, Norwegian Nynorsk and Swedish av (“of, off”), Icelandic af (“of, off”), Gothic 𐌰𐍆 (af, “of, from”); and with Latin ab (“of, from, by”), Ancient Greek ἀπό (apó, “from”), and others.

-sta

used to indicate the location or direction of one thing relative to another

The guy was off a perc.


chewing

en-noun

chewing (countable and uncountable, plural chewings)

From Middle English chewyng, chewynge, from Old English ċīwung, ċȳwung, ċēowung (“chewing”), equivalent to chew + -ing.

(drugs) The consumption of (the juice from) the khat plant.

(drugs) The consumption of loose leaf tobacco juice from tobacco plants by chewing leaves near the cheek.


carb

She lifted her thumb off the carb and breathed in the thick smoke.

(drugs) The hole on a pipe which is covered and opened to control the inflow of air.


sally

(slang, drugs, Canada, US) The crystalline or powdered form of MDA.


serve

en-verb

serve (third-person singular simple present serves, present participle serving, simple past and past participle served)

serves (present singular third-person)
serving (participle present)
served (participle past)
served (past)

desc

→ Thai: เสิร์ฟ (sə̀əp)

→ Thai: เสิร์ฟ (sə̀əp)

From Middle English serven, from Old French servir, from Latin serviō (“be a slave; serve”), from Latin servus (“slave; servant”), which perhaps derives from Etruscan (compare Etruscan proper names 𐌔𐌄𐌓𐌅𐌉 (servi), 𐌔𐌄𐌓𐌅𐌄 (serve)), or from Proto-Indo-European *ser- (“watch over, protect”).

Once I began selling crack, money was no issue. I would be out 2-3 days at a time, up for 24 hours a day. It was a full time job, serving crack fiends.

2006, Stacey Green, Inside...the Mind of a Man!, page 18:

Tim told her that she could make a little money on the side by serving crack-cocaine.

They'd serve cocaine, and you'd sit there, and base this cocaine. And you'd have an ounce gone in 24 hours.

2012, Diana Prince, Secret Lives: Real Lives in the World’S Oldest Profession:

When crews like the Supreme Team saw the effect of the powerful new drug on users, they streamlined their own operation to serve crack only.

2013, Seth Ferranti, The Supreme Team: The Birth of Crack and Hip-Hop, Prince’s Reign of Terror and the Supreme/50 Cent Beef Exposed:

(ambitransitive, slang, drugs) To provide crack cocaine (to), usually by selling, dealing, or distributing.


slam

en-verb

slam (third-person singular simple present slams, present participle slamming, simple past and past participle slammed)

slams (present singular third-person)
slamming (participle present)
slammed (participle past)
slammed (past)

From Middle English *slammen (not recorded), apparently from a Scandinavian source ultimately from Old Norse slæma, slœma (“to slam, swing a weapon, strike an object out of reach”), related to Old Norse slamra, slambra (“to slam”). Cognate with Norwegian Bokmål slamre (“to slam”), Swedish slamra (“to pound, beat, make a clatter, rattle”), Norwegian Nynorsk slamra (“to sway, dangle”).

правя капо

card games: to defeat by winning all the tricks

I mentioned earlier how many people will draw lines in the sand that they'll never cross: some won't try Tina, others will never slam.

2017, James Wharton, Something for the Weekend, Biteback Publishing, →ISBN:

(ambitransitive, drugs, slang) To inject intravenously; shoot up.


blues

en-noun

blues (countable and uncountable, plural blues)

→ Catalan: blues

→ Danish: blues

→ Finnish: blues

→ French: blues

→ Hungarian: blues

→ Icelandic: blús

→ Italian: blues

→ Portuguese: blues

→ Spanish: blues

→ Swedish: blues

(drugs, slang) Any of various blue pills sold on the street, mimicking the appearance of prescription pain killer tablets.


cookie

cookies (plural)
cookey (alternative uncommon)
cooky (alternative uncommon)

→ Arabic: كُوكِي (kuki)

→ Armenian: կուկի (kuki)

→ Cantonese: 曲奇 (kuk¹ kei⁴)

→ Mandarin: 曲奇 (qūqí)

→ Catalan: cookie

→ Cebuano: kokis

→ Dutch: cookie

→ French: cookie

→ Georgian: ქუქი (kuki)

→ German: Cookie

→ Gujarati: કૂકી (kūkī)

→ Hawaiian: kuki

→ Hindi: कुकी (kukī)

→ Italian: cookie

→ Japanese: クッキー (kukkī)

→ Kannada: ಕುಕಿ (kuki)

→ Khmer: ខូគី (khoukii)

→ Korean: 쿠키 (kuki)

→ Malay: kuki

→ Polish: cookie

→ Portuguese: cookie

→ Russian: ку́ки (kúki)

→ Spanish: cookie

→ Swahili: kuki

→ Swedish: cookie

→ Tagalog: kuki

→ Telugu: కుకీ (kukī)

→ Thai: คุกกี้ (kúk-gîi)

→ Tigrinya: ኩኪ (kuki)

→ Ukrainian: ку́ки (kúky)

→ Yiddish: קוקי (kuki)

→ Yoruba: kúkì

Borrowed from Dutch koekie, dialectal diminutive of koek (“cake”), from Proto-Germanic *kōkô (compare German Low German Kookje (“biscuit, cookie, cracker”), Low German Kook (“cake”), German Kuchen (“cake”)). More at cake. Not related to English cook.
The computing senses derive from magic cookie.

koekie

small, flat baked good — see also biscuit

(slang, drugs) A piece of crack cocaine, larger than a rock, and often in the shape of a cookie.


tutti-frutti

en-noun

tutti-frutti (countable and uncountable, plural tutti-fruttis)

tutti-fruttis (plural)
tutti frutti (alternative)

From Sicilian tutti frutti (“all fruits”), so attested in 1838 for a kind of sorbet.

(New Zealand, drugs) A type of inhalable, powdered drug.


smurf

Peyo
The Smurfs
fr:Les Schtroumpfs
nl:De Smurfen

Borrowed from Dutch smurf (via the Belgian comic De Smurfen, a translation of French Les Schtroumpfs), from French schtroumpf, a word that was created by Peyo based on German Strumpf (literally “stocking, sock”), either simply because it sounds funny to the French ear or based on a regional German use for “idiot”. Armand van Raalte was an employee for the Belgian publisher of Peyo's stories who felt that schtroumpf would not have the same effect in Dutch, so he tried to find a simple word that could be used both as a noun and a verb. The result was smurf. In other languages, the term was similarly altered; compare the translations below.

der

Each smurf goes to different banks and purchases cashier's checks in denominations of less than $ 10,000, thus bypassing the reporting requirement.

1998, Michael D. Lyman, Gary W. Potter, Drugs in Society: Causes, Concepts, and Control, page 202:

Once the checks and money orders were purchased, the smurfs delivered them to Barrera, who arranged deposits of multiple checks and money orders into bank accounts that he controlled for further transfer to accounts in Panama, Colombia, and elsewhere.

2001, Robert E. Grosse, Drugs and Money: Laundering Latin America's Cocaine Dollars, page 73:

The local cooks would get some smurfs to buy boxes of Sudafed at all the drugstores in a hundred-mile radius, then pay them off in product.

2020, David Heska Wanbli Weiden, Winter Counts, page 22:

(law enforcement, drugs, slang) One member of a team, each of whom acquires a small amount of money or ingredients for manufacturing drugs, keeping the transactions too small in order to not raise suspicion.


narc

Clipping of narcotics (control) officer.

(informal, colloquial, drugs) A police officer or federal agent assigned to or engaging in illegal narcotics control.


narc

Alternative spelling of nark, influenced by narc (“narcotics officer”).

(informal, colloquial, drugs) Alternative spelling of nark (“spy”).


narc

en-verb

narc (third-person singular simple present narcs, present participle narcing, simple past and past participle narced)

narcs (present singular third-person)
narcing (participle present)
narced (participle past)
narced (past)

(informal, colloquial, drugs) Alternative spelling of nark.


dog food

en-noun

dog food (countable and uncountable, plural dog foods)

dog foods (plural)
dogfood (alternative US)

(slang, drugs) Heroin, typically the non-black tar type.


primo

Borrowed from Italian primo (“first”). Doublet of prime and primus.

(slang, drugs) A marijuana cigarette that has been laced with cocaine or heroin.


Sally

A diminutive lambdacism of Sarah. Compare Hal from Harry and Moll from Mary.

(slang, drugs, Canada, US) Alternative letter-case form of sally: the crystalline or powdered form of MDA.


tire gauge

tire gauges (plural)
tire gage (alternative US)
tyre gauge (alternative Australia Ireland UK)

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(slang, drugs) A type of crack pipe, with its innards removed.


wig out

en-verb

wig out (third-person singular simple present wigs out, present participle wigging out, simple past and past participle wigged out)

wigs out (present singular third-person)
wigging out (participle present)
wigged out (participle past)
wigged out (past)

Compare freak out, etc., and flip one's wig.

(drugs, slang, intransitive) To behave in an extremely erratic or irrational manner; to lose one's mind.


rock up

rock up (third-person singular simple present rocks up, present participle rocking up, simple past and past participle rocked up)

rocks up (present singular third-person)
rocking up (participle present)
rocked up (participle past)
rocked up (past)

(slang, drugs) To turn powder cocaine into crack cocaine by cooking.


shooting gallery

en-noun

shooting gallery (plural shooting galleries)

(drugs, slang) A room where recreational drug users inject themselves with a drug.


dope sick

en-adj

dope sick (comparative more dope sick, superlative most dope sick)

more dope sick (comparative)
most dope sick (superlative)
dopesick (alternative)

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(slang, drugs) Ill due to withdrawal from drugs, especially opiates; in withdrawal.


backstrap

(drugs) The rolling of a marijuana cigarette in a certain fashion.


backroll

(drugs) The rolling the marijuana cigarette in a certain fashion


baby powder

en-noun

baby powder (countable and uncountable, plural baby powders)

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booty bump

booty bumps (plural)
booty-bump (alternative)

Well, he don't much like the taste of chili P. That much has been established. So unless you can convince him to booty bump...

2009, “Grilled” (33:48 from the start), in Breaking Bad, season 2, episode 2, spoken by Jesse Pinkman (Aaron Paul):

(informal, drugs) The act of taking methamphetamine by squirting it into the rectum.


couchlock

couch-lock (alternative)
couch lock (alternative)

Silver Goo is strong medicine—a bit heavy for some but not a complete couchlock. The Haze influence brings an up edge that balances the high nicely.

The young saleslady at the medical marijuana distribution center told me that one brownie was equal to one dose. Later I found out that it was equal to four doses. The brownie caused complete couchlock for about four hours, but I had no trouble whatsoever with the experience itself because I was already familiar with how to handle high doses.

2013, Robert E. Leihy, PSYCHEDELIC EXPERIENCE FOR PERSONAL BENEFIT - Page 12:

(colloquial, drugs) A state of idleness, laziness, or inactivity brought about by excessive consumption of drugs, typically marijuana.


spicelike

en-adj

spicelike (comparative more spicelike, superlative most spicelike)

more spicelike (comparative)
most spicelike (superlative)

The DEA has banned some basic types, but much research needs to be done. Some states have instituted bans on spice and spicelike products.

2016, Rosalind Charlesworth, Understanding Child Development:

(drugs) Like or resembling (in constitution, use, effects, etc.) spice (synthetic marijuana)


moon rocks

(slang, drugs, plural only) A particularly strong preparation of cannabis.


hot rail

(drugs) The act or practice of snorting vaporized drug fumes through a pipe, superheated at one end.


traphouse

(slang, drugs, African-American Vernacular) Alternative form of trap house.


dope house

(informal, drugs) A dwelling where drugs are either used or sold.


cook back

en-verb

cook back (third-person singular simple present cooks back, present participle cooking back, simple past and past participle cooked back)

cooks back (present singular third-person)
cooking back (participle present)
cooked back (participle past)
cooked back (past)

(transitive, drugs) To recook a drug (especially crack cocaine) in an aqueous solution (water) in order to remove excess adulterants, thereby purifying it.


crack out

crack out (third-person singular simple present cracks out, present participle cracking out, simple past and past participle cracked out)

cracks out (present singular third-person)
cracking out (participle present)
cracked out (participle past)
cracked out (past)

Look over there. That kid is cracking out.

(intransitive, drugs, slang) To show signs or symptoms of excessive crack cocaine use.

(transitive, drugs, slang) To intoxicate through the administration of crack cocaine.

Super Size Me 2: Holy Chicken!, Morgan Spurlock.
"So part of the reason why this is the fastest growing chain is because their cracking us out on MSG"

(transitive, drugs, slang, by extension) To intoxicate, similar to a crack high, through administration of a comparable substance.


cracked out

en-adj

cracked out (comparative more cracked out, superlative most cracked out)

more cracked out (comparative)
most cracked out (superlative)
cracked-out (alternative)

You need to slow down, yo. You're starting to look all cracked out.

Be kind by gently tapping that cracked-out reveler who resembles a human vibrator and whispering, "Pride is a feeling..."

(drugs, slang) Appearing excessively high or hooked on crack cocaine.


wet weed

From wet + weed, so named from the practice of dipping weed into PCP juice causing to the weed to become wet.

Have you ever smoked wet weed?

(drugs) Marijuana infused with phencyclidine (PCP) or formaldehyde.


dope set

(slang, drugs) A street or section of a town or city where drugs are either used or sold.


brown heroin

From brown + heroin, from the light to medium brown colour as opposed to black tar heroin.

(drugs) A type of heroin, powdery and brown in color, that is usually snorted or smoked.


hot piping

(slang, drugs) A form of smoking of illegal narcotics using tinfoil, a lighter and a straw to ingest the drugs.


dope stick

dope sticks (plural)
dope-stick (alternative)
dopestick (alternative)

He hands the dope-stick to his partner who drives with one hand on the steering-wheel and the other toking on the blunt.

2010, Reverend James R. Harris, Jesus in Columbus, page 6:

She shrugged and set down the dope stick she'd been puffing on.

2012, Alan Dean Foster, The Moment of the Magician:

Before he could finish his dope stick, a dope fiend came up asking for a twenty rock of crack.

2014, Mr. Mafia, The Last Birdman, page 40:

(slang, drugs) A marijuana joint or cigar laced with cocaine.


α-Methylfentanyl

(pharmacology, drugs) An opioid analgesic that is an analog of fentanyl.


Colombian cold

(slang, somewhat humorous, drugs) A cold or sinus infection resulting from the use of cocaine.


tweak freak

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From tweak + freak. Chosen for the rhyme.

(slang, derogatory, drugs) A regular user of methamphetamine.


pookie

(slang, drugs) A glass pipe designed for freebasing cocaine, methamphetamine, or other drugs.


shermed

(slang, drugs) Under the influence of phencyclidine.


sherm stick

(slang, US, drugs) A cigarette or joint laced with phencyclidine.