Dictionary

Drug-Related Street Slang

Bellow you will find an ongoing, ever-changing list of slang, street drug terms. It is by no means complete and I would appreciate any feedback and cooperation you might be able to provide for this ongoing project, so that I might make this list as complete and accurate as possible.

If you find any errors or would like to see a term  included which is  not yet listed, please leave your input in form of a comment at the bottom of the page.


Addicts NOT Anonymous Drug-Slang Dictionary


420 - Marijuana use

51 - Combination of crack cocaine with marijuana or tobacco
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
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
Bag - Container for drugs; a package of drugs, usually marijuana or heroin; a person's favorite drug
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 - head A person who bases
Based out - To have lost control over basing
Beamer - Crack smoker
Belushi - Combination of cocaine and heroin
Bender - Drug party
Blanks - Low quality drugs
Blast - Cocaine; Smoke crack; Marijuana; smoke marijuana or crack
Blasted - Under the influence of drugs
Bling bling - Methamphetamine
Blow - Cocaine; to inhale cocaine; to smoke marijuana; to inject heroin
Blow a fix/blow a shot - Injection misses the vein and is wasted in the skin
Blow the vein - To inject a drug
Blue - Crack Cocaine; depressants; OxyContin
Boost - to steal; to inject a drug
Boot - To inject a drug
Booted - Under the influence of drugs
Boy - Heroin
Boy-girl - Heroin mixed with cocaine
Bugged - Irritated; to be covered with sores and abscesses from repeated use of unsterile needles
Bummer - Unsettling and threatening experience from PCP intoxication
Bump - Crack; fake crack; cocaine; boost a high; hit of ketamine ($20)
Bump up - Use of cocaine to bolster MDMA (methylenedioxymethamphetamine)
Burned out - Collapse of veins from repeated injections; permanent impairment from drug abuse
Burnout - Heavy abuser of drugs
Buzz - Under the influence of drugs
Candy-  sticks Marijuana cigarettes laced with powdered cocaine
Cap-  Crack Cocaine; LSD; a capsule of a drug
Carry - To be in posession of drugs
Chasing the tiger - To smoke heroin
Chipper - Occasional user; occasional heroin user; occasional Hispanic user
Chipping - Using drugs occasionally
Choco-fan - Heroin
Coasting - Under the influence of drugs
Cocktail - Combination of crack and marijuana; cigarette laced with cocaine or crack; partially smoked marijuana cigarette inserted in regular cigarette; to smoke cocaine in a cigarette
Cold turkey - Sudden withdrawal from drugs
Cooker - To inject a drug; person who manufactures methamphetamine
Cotton - The cotton filter to strain heroin through
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
Crash - Sleep off effects of drugs
Dirties - Marijuana cigarettes with powder cocaine added to them
Disease - Drug of choice
Dope fiend - A person who is drug dependent; crack adict
Draw up - To inject a drug
Drop - To swallow drugs
Fast - Methamphetamine
Fiend - Someone who smokes marijuana alone
Fire - Crack and methamphetamine; to inject a drug
Fix To inject a drug
Flipping - Methylenedioxymethamphetamine (MDMA)
Flying - Under the influence of drugs
Gangster - Marijuana; person who uses or manufactures methamphetamine
Garbage heads - Users who buy crack from street dealers instead of cooking it themselves
Getting glassed - To snort methamphetamine
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
Gym candy - Steroids
Highbeams - The wide eyes of a person on crack
Hit the main line - To inject a drug
Hit the needle - To inject a drug
Hitting up - To inject a drug
Hooked - Addicted
Hopped up - Under the influence of drugs
Huffer - Inhalant abuser
Huffing - To sniff an inhalant
Hugs and Kisses - Combination of methamphetamine and methylenedioxymethamphetamine (MDMA)
Jack - Steal someone else's drugs
Jack-up - To inject a drug
Junkie - Addict
Junkie kits - Glass pipe and copper mesh
La Chiva - ("goat") Heroin
Lady - Cocaine; heroin
Legal speed - Over the counter asthma drug; trade name-MiniThin
Little boy - Heroin
Loaded - High
Mainliner - Person who injects into the vein
Meth head - Methamphetamine regular user
Meth monster - One who has a violent reaction to methamphetamine
OCs - OxyContin
Old navy - Heroin
On a mission - Searching for crack and/or being high on crack
Os - OxyContin
Ox - OxyContin
P and P - Methamphetamine used in combination with MDMA (methylenedioxymethamphetamine) and Viagra
Pipe - Crack pipe; marijuana pipe; vein into which a drug is injected; mix drugs with other substances
Primo - Combination of crack cocaine and marijuana
Puffer - Crack smoker
Pumpers - Steroids
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
Rock star - Female who trades sex for crack or money to buy crack; a person who uses rock cocaine
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
Sextasy - Ecstasy used with Viagra
Sharps - Hypodermic needles
Shooting gallery - Place where drugs are used
Shot - To inject a drug; an amount of cocaine; 10 shot or 20 shot
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
Snorting - Using inhalant
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
Spoon - 1/16 ounce of heroin; paraphernalia used to prepare heroin for injection
Stash - To hide drug
Stash Place - to hide drugs
Stoned - Under the influence of drugs
Strung out - Heavily addicted to drugs
Super X - Combination of methamphetamine and methylenedioxymethamphetamine (MDMA)
Tools - Equipment used for injecting drugs
Tracks - Marks and scars from injecting drugs
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
Wasted - Under the influence of drugs; murdered
Works - Equipment for injecting drugs
Zombie - PCP; heavy user of drugs
Zonked - Extremely high on drugs