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Banano - Marijuana or tobacco cigarettes laced with

cocaine

A-bomb - Marijuana cigarette with heroin or opium

Barbs Cocaine

AIP - Heroin from Afghanistan, Iran, Pakistan

Bars - Heroin mixed with alprazolam

Al Capone - Heroin

Bart Simpson - Heroin

All-American drug - Cocaine

Basa - Crack cocaine

Angie Cocaine

Base - Cocaine; crack

Antifreeze Heroin

Base crazies - Searching on hands and knees for

Apple jacks - Crack Cocaine

cocaine or crack

Aries Heroin

Base head - person who bases

Artillery Equipment for shooting drugs

Baseball - Crack Cocaine

Aspirin Powder cocaine

Based out - To have lost control over basing

Atom bomb - Marijuana mixed with heroin

Basing - Crack Cocaine

Aunt Powder cocaine

Basuco (Spanish) Cocaine; coca paste residue

Aunt Hazel - Heroin

sprinkled on regular or marijuana cigarette

Aunt Nora Cocaine

Batman - Cocaine; heroin

Bazooka - Cocaine; combination of crack and

B.J.'s - Crack Cocaine

coca paste and marijuana

Baby T - Crack Cocaine

Bazulco Cocaine

Back to back - Smoking crack after injecting heroin

Beam - Cocaine

or heroin used after smoking crack

Beam me up Scottie - Cocaine (powder or crack)

Back Up Permitting blood to back up into a syringe

combined with PCP

to ensure the needle is in a vein

Beam me up Scotty - Cocaine (powder or crack)

Bad - Crack Cocaine

combined with PCP

Bad bundle - Inferior quality heroin; damaged heroin

Beamer - Crack smoker

Bad seed - Marijuana combined with peyote; heroin

Beamers - Crack cocaine

Badrock - Crack Cocaine

Beast - Heroin plus LSD

Bag - Container for drugs; a package of drugs,

Beat - Crack cocaine

usually marijuana or heroin; a person's favorite drug

Beat vials - Vials containing sham crack to cheat

Bag bride - Crack-smoking prostitute

buyers

Bag Man Person who transports money

Beautiful boulders - Crack Cocaine

Ball - Crack cocaine; Mexican Black Tar heroin

Bebe - Crack Cocaine

Balling Vaginally implanted cocaine

Beemers - Crack Cocaine

Balloon - Heroin supplier; a penny balloon that

Behind the scale - To weigh and sell cocaine

contains narcotics

Beiging - Chemically altering cocaine to make it look

Ballot - Heroin

brown, higher quality

marijuana; crack and tobacco combined in a joint;

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Belushi - Combination of cocaine and heroin

Blast - Cocaine; Smoke crack; Marijuana; smoke

Bernice Cocaine

marijuana or crack

Bernie Cocaine

Bing -- Cocaine Boston area

Bernie's flakes Cocaine

Blizzard - A white cloud in a pipe used to smoke

Bernie's gold dust Cocaine

cocaine

Big 8 - 1/8 kilogram crack

Blotter - Crack cocaine; LSD

Big bag - Heroin

Blow - Cocaine; to inhale cocaine; to smoke

Big bloke Cocaine

marijuana; to inject heroin

Big C Cocaine

Blow blue - To inhale cocaine

Big doodig Heroin

Blow coke - To inhale cocaine

Big flake Cocaine

Blow smoke - To inhale cocaine

Big H Heroin

Blow up - Crack cut with lidocaine to increase size,

Big Harry Heroin

weight, and street value

Bill Blass - Crack Cocaine

Blowcaine - Crack diluted with cocaine

Big rush Cocaine

Blowout Crack

Billie hoke Cocaine

Blows Heroin

Bin Laden - Heroin (after September 11)

Blue - Crack Cocaine; depressants; Oxycontin

Bindle - Small packet of drug powder; heroin

Blue bag - Heroin

Bing Crosby -- Cocaine Boston area

Blue star Heroin

Bingers - Crack addicts

Blunt - Marijuana, or cocaine and marijuana inside a

Bings - Crack Cocaine

cigar

Bipping - Snorting heroin and cocaine, either

Bobby Brown - Heroin

separately or together

Bobo - Crack Cocaine

Birdie powder - Cocaine; heroin

Body-packer - Individual who ingests wrapped

Biscuit - 50 rocks of crack

packets of crack or cocaine to transport

Bjs - Crack Cocaine

Body-stuffer - Individual who ingests crack vials to

Black - Heroin

avoid prosecution

Black eagle Heroin

Bolivian Marching Powder Cocaine

Black pearl Heroin

Bollo Crack cocaine

Black rock - Crack Cocaine

Bolo - Crack cocaine

Black stuff - Heroin; opium

Bomb - Crack; heroin; large marijuana cigarette; high

Black tar Heroin

potency heroin

Blanca (Spanish) Cocaine

Bomb squad - Name of crack-selling crew

Blanco (Spanish) - Heroin plus cocaine

Bombido - Heroin; injectable amphetamine;

Blank - Container of non-narcotic powder that is sold

depressants

as heroin

Bombita (Spanish) - Heroin plus amphetamine;

depressants; mixture of heroin and cocaine

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Bombs away Heroin

Bubble gum - Cocaine; crack cocaine; marijuana

Bone - Marijuana; $50 piece of crack; high purity

from Tennessee

heroin

Buda - Marijuana; a high-grade marijuana joint filled

Bone crusher - Crack Cocaine

with crack

Bones - Crack Cocaine

Buffer - A woman who performs oral sex in

Bonita (Spanish) - Heroin plus amphetamine;

exchange for crack; crack smoker

depressants

Bull dog - Heroin

Booger Sugar - Cocaine

Bullia capital - Crack; fake crack

Boost - Crack Cocaine; to steal; to inject a drug

Bullion - Crack Cocaine

Booster - To inhale cocaine

Bump - Crack; fake crack; cocaine; boost a high; hit

Booth - Cocaine

of ketamine ($20)

Bopper - Crack Cocaine

Bump up - Use of cocaine to bolster MDMA

Botray - Crack Cocaine

(methylenedioxymethamphetamine)

Bottles - Crack vials; amphetamine

Bumper - Crack cocaine

Boubou - Crack Cocaine

Bumping up - Methylenedioxymethamphetamine

Boulder - Crack Cocaine; $20 worth of crack

(MDMA) combined with powder cocaine

Boulya - Crack Cocaine

Bundle - Heroin

Bouncing powder Cocaine

Bunk - Fake cocaine; Crack Cocaine

Boy - Cocaine; heroin

Burese - Cocaine

Boy-girl - Heroin mixed with cocaine

Burnese - Cocaine

Bozo Heroin

Bush - Marijuana; cocaine; PCP

Brain damage Heroin

Butler - Crack Cocaine

Brea (Spanish) Heroin

Butter - Marijuana; crack

Break night - Staying up all night on a cocaine binge

Butu Heroin

until daybreak
Breakdown - $40 of crack cocaine that can be

broken down into $20 packages

C Cocaine

Brick - Crack Cocaine; cocaine; marijuana; 1

C & M - Cocaine and morphine

kilogram of marijuana

C joint - Place where cocaine is sold

Brick gum Heroin

Caballo (Spanish) Heroin

Broja Heroin

Cabello (Spanish) Cocaine

Brown - Marijuana; heroin; methamphetamine

Caca Heroin

Brown crystal Heroin

Cadillac - Cocaine; PCP

Brown Rhine Heroin

Caine - Cocaine; Crack Cocaine

Brown sugar Heroin

Cakes - Round discs of crack

Brown tape Heroin

Calbo (Spanish) Heroin

California cornflakes Cocaine

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Chalking - Chemically altering the color of cocaine

Canade - Heroin/marijuana combination

so it looks white

Candy - Cocaine; Crack Cocaine; amphetamine;

Champagne - Combination of cocaine and marijuana

depressants

Channel swimmer - One who injects heroin

Candy C Cocaine

Chapopote (Spanish) Heroin

Candy flipping on a string - Combining or

Charlie Cocaine

sequencing LSD with MDMA; mixing LSD, MDMA,

Charley Heroin

and cocaine

Chase - To smoke cocaine; to smoke marijuana

Candy sticks - Marijuana cigarettes laced with

Chaser - Compulsive crack user

powdered cocaine

Chasing the dragon - Crack mixed with heroin; a

Candy sugar - Powder cocaine

particular way of inhaling heroin

Cap - Crack Cocaine; LSD; a capsule of a drug

Chasing the tiger - To smoke heroin

Capital H Heroin

Chatarra (Spanish) Heroin

Caps - Heroin; psilocybin/psilocin; crack; Gamma

Cheap basing Crack

Hydroxybutyrate (GHB)

Cheeba Heroin

Capsula (Spanish) - Crack Cocaine

Cheese - Heroin; mix of ground-up cold medicine

Carburetor - Crack stem attachment

and a small amount of heroin, also black tar heroin

Carga (Spanish) Heroin

combined with diphenhydramine

Carne (Spanish) Heroin

Chemical Crack Cocaine

Carnie Cocaine

Chewies Crack Cocaine

Carpet patrol - Crack smokers searching the floor for

Chiba Heroin

crack

Chicken Feed Cocaine

Carrie Cocaine

Chicken scratch Searching on hands and knees

Carrie Nation Cocaine

for crack or cocaine

Casper - Crack Cocaine

Chicle (Spanish) Heroin

Casper the ghost - Crack Cocaine

Chieva Heroin

Caviar - Combination of cocaine and marijuana;

China cat Heroin

Crack Cocaine

China white - Heroin plus fentanyl; synthetic heroin

CDs - Crack Cocaine

Chinese red Heroin

C-dust - Cocaine

Chinese Sky Candy Cocaine

Cecil Cocaine

Ching -- Cocaine, resembling a cash-register,

C-game Cocaine

because of how expensive cocaine is

Chabbie Cocaine

Chip Heroin

Chalk - Crack cocaine; amphetamine;

Chipper - Occasional user; occasional heroin user;

methamphetamine

occasional Hispanic user

Chalked up - Under the influence of cocaine

Chiva/chieva (Spanish) Heroin

Choco-fan Heroin

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Chocolate Chip cookies - MDMA combined with

Coke - Cocaine; Crack Cocaine

heroin or methadone

Coke bar - A bar where cocaine is openly used

Chocolate ecstasy - Crack made brown by adding

Coke broke - Financially incapacitated from

chocolate milk during production

supporting a cocaine habit

Chocolate rock - Crack smoked together with heroin

Cola - Cocaine

Choe - Cocaine

Columbian Dancing Dust - Cocaine

Cholly - Cocaine

Columbian Foot Soldiers - Cocaine

Chronic - Marijuana; marijuana mixed with crack

Combol - Cocaine

Chucks - Hunger following withdrawal from heroin

Comeback - Benzocaine and mannitol used to

Cigamos - Combination of crack cocaine and

adulterate cocaine for conversion to crack

tobacco

Connie - Powder cocaine

Cigarette paper - Packet of heroin

Cook - Drug manufacturer; mix heroin with water;

Clicker - Crack mixed with PCP; marijuana dipped in

heating heroin to prepare it for injection

formaldehyde and smoked

Cook down - Process in which users liquefy heroin

Climax - Crack; heroin; isobutyl nitrite; inhalants

in order to inhale it

Clocker - Entry level crack dealers who sell drugs 24

Cooker Usually a spoon or bottle cap used to head

hours a day

drugs for injection

Closet baser - User of crack who prefers anonymity

Cookies - Crack Cocaine

Cloud - Crack Cocaine

Cooking up - To process powdered cocaine into

Cloud nine - Crack cocaine;

crack

methylenedioxymethamphetamine (MDMA)

Coolie - Cigarette laced with cocaine

Cluck - Crack smoker

Cork the air - To inhale cocaine

Co-ca-ee-na Cocaine (phonetic)

Corrine - Cocaine

Coca - Cocaine

Corinne - Cocaine

Cocaine blues - Depression after extended cocaine

Cotics - Heroin

use

Cotton brothers - Cocaine, heroin and morphine

Cocktail - Combination of crack and marijuana;

Courage pills - Heroin; depressants

cigarette laced with cocaine or crack; partially

Crack - Cocaine

smoked marijuana cigarette inserted in regular

Crack attack - Craving for crack

cigarette; to smoke cocaine in a cigarette

Crack back - Marijuana and crack

Coco rocks - Dark brown crack made by adding

Crack bash - Combination of crack cocaine and

chocolate pudding during production

marijuana

Coco snow - Benzocaine used as cutting agent for

Crack cooler - Crack soaked in wine cooler

crack

Crack gallery - Place where crack is bought and sold

Cocoa puff - To smoke cocaine and marijuana

Crack house - Place where crack is used

Cocofan (Spanish) - Brown Tar Heroin

Crack spot - Area where people can purchase crack;

Coconut - Cocaine

place where crack is sold, but not used

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Cracker Jack - Crack smoker

Devil smoke - Crack Cocaine

Crank - Crack Cocaine; heroin; amphetamine;

Diablito (Spanish) - Combination of crack cocaine

methamphetamine; methcathinone

and marijuana in a joint

Crap - Low quality heroin

Dice - Crack Cocaine

Credit card - Crack stem

Diesel Heroin, common in New York

Crib - Crack Cocaine

Dime - Crack Cocaine; $10 worth of crack

Crimmie - Cigarette laced with crack

Dime Bag - $10 worth of a narcotic

Crisscrossing - The practice of setting up a line of

Dime special - Crack Cocaine

cocaine next to a line of heroin. The user places a

Dime's worth - Amount of heroin to cause death

straw in each nostril and snorts about half of each

Dinosaurs - Populations of heroin users in their

line. Then the straws are crossed and the remaining

forties and fifties

lines are snorted

Dip - Crack Cocaine

Croak - Cocaine mixed with methamphetamine;

Dipping out - Crack runners taking a portion of crack

methamphetamine

from vials

Crop - Low quality heroin

Dirt - Heroin

Crown crap - Heroin

Dirties - Marijuana cigarettes with powder cocaine

Crumbs - Tiny pieces of crack

added to them

Crunch & Munch - Crack Cocaine

Dirty basing - Crack Cocaine

Crystal - Cocaine; amphetamine; methamphetamine;

Dirty joints - Combination of crack cocaine and

PCP

marijuana

Cubes - Marijuana tablets; crack cocaine

Divits - Cocaine

Cuch - Cocaine

Do a line - To inhale cocaine

Cura (Spanish) - Heroin

DOA - Crack; heroin; PCP

Cut-deck - Heroin mixed with powdered milk

Dog food - Heroin

Dogie - Heroin

Dama Blanca (Spanish) - Cocaine

Dookie Rocks - Heroin

Dead on arrival - Heroin

Dooley - Heroin

Dead president - Heroin

Doosey - Heroin

Deck - 1 to 15 grams of heroin, also known as a bag;

Dope - Marijuana; heroin; any other drug; Heroin in

packet of drugs

Philadelphia

Demo - Crack stem; sample-size quantity of crack

Dope fiend - A person who is drug dependent; crack

Demolish - Crack

addict

Deuce - Heroin; $2 worth of drugs

Doub - $20 rock of crack

Devil drug - Crack Cocaine

Double breasted dealing - Dealing cocaine and

Devil's dandruff - Crack cocaine; powder cocaine

heroin together

Devil's dick - Crack pipe

Double bubble - Cocaine

Doogie/doojee/dugie - Heroin

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Double rock - Crack diluted in procaine

El Perico ("parrot") - Cocaine

Double up - When a crack dealer delivers an extra

Electric kool-aid - Crack cocaine

rock as a marketing ploy to attract customers

Esnortiar (Spanish) - Cocaine

Double ups - A $20 rock that can be broken into two

Estuffa - Heroin

$20 rocks

Ever clear - Cocaine; gamma hydroxybutyrate (GHB)

Double yoke - Crack Cocaine

Eye opener - Crack; amphetamine

Dove - $35 piece of crack

Dr. Feelgood - Heroin
Draf - Marijuana; ecstasy, with cocaine
Dragon -- When smoked, the thick smoke of heroin
is said to resemble the tail of a dragon (Hence:
Chasing the Dragon)
Dragon rock - Mixture of heroin and crack
Dream - Cocaine
Dreck - Heroin

F
Famous dimes - Crack Cocaine
Fast white lady - Powder cocaine
Fat bags - Crack Cocaine

Dub - When a crack dealer delivers an extra rock as

Feenin - Behavior associated with a person craving

a marketing ploy to attract customers

cocaine or other addictive substances when they are

Duct - Cocaine

unavailable

Duji - Heroin
Dujra - Heroin
Dujre - Heroin
Dust - Marijuana mixed with various chemicals;

Ferry dust - Heroin

Fifty-one - Crack; crack sprinkled on tobacco
Fire - Crack and methamphetamine; to inject a drug
Fish scales - Crack Cocaine

cocaine; heroin; PCP; narcotics in powder form

Five-way - Combines snorting of heroin, cocaine,

Dusting - Adding PCP, heroin, or another drug to

methamphetamine, ground up flunitrazepam pills,

marijuana; using inhalants

and drinking alcohol

Dynamite - Cocaine mixed with heroin

Fix - Heroin

Dyno - Heroin

Flake - Cocaine

Dyno-pure Heroin

Flame Cooking - Smoking cocaine base by putting

the pipe over a stove flame

Eastside player - Crack Cocaine

heroin; heroin, cocaine and tobacco

Egg - Crack Cocaine

Eight ball - Crack mixed with heroin
Eighth - Heroin
El diablito (Spanish) - Cocaine, marijuana, heroin

Flamethrowers - Cigarette laced with cocaine and

Flash - LSD; the rush of cocaine injection
Flat chunks - Crack cut with benzocaine
Flave - Powder cocaine
Flea powder - Low purity heroin

and PCP

Fleece - Counterfeit crack cocaine

El diablo (Spanish) - Cocaine, marijuana and heroin

Flex - Fake crack (rock cocaine)

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Florida snow - Cocaine

Geeker - Crack users

Foil - Heroin

Geek-joints - Cigarettes or cigars filled with tobacco

Foo - Cocaine

and crack; a marijuana cigarette laced with crack or

Foo-Foo stuff - Heroin; cocaine

powdered cocaine

Foo-Foo dust - Cocaine

Geeze - To inhale cocaine

Foolish powder - Cocaine; heroin

George - Heroin

Freebase - To smoke cocaine; Crack Cocaine

George smack - Heroin

Freebasing - Smoking crack cocaine

Get off houses - Private places heroin users can

Freeze - Cocaine; renege on a drug deal

purchase & use heroin for a fee

French fries - Crack Cocaine

Getting snotty - Using heroin

Fries - Crack Cocaine

Ghost busting - Smoking cocaine; searching for

Frisco special - Cocaine, heroin, and LSD

white particles in the belief that they are crack

Frisco speedball - Cocaine, heroin, and a dash of

Gick monster - Crack smoker

LSD

Gift-of-the-sun - Cocaine

Friskie powder - Cocaine

Gift-of-the-sun-god - Cocaine

Frontloading - The process of transferring a drug

Gimmie - Crack and marijuana; marijuana joint laced

solution from one syringe to another

with crack

Fry - Marijuana cigarettes dipped in embalming fluid,

Gin Cocaine

sometimes also laced with PCP; Crack Cocaine

Girl - Cocaine; Crack Cocaine; heroin

Fry daddy - Crack and marijuana; cigarette laced

Girlfriend - Cocaine

with crack; marijuana joint laced with crack

Give wings - Inject someone or teach someone to

Furra Heroin

inject heroin

Glacines - Heroin

Gaffel - Fake cocaine

Glass - Heroin; amphetamine; hypodermic needle;

Galloping horse - Heroin

methamphetamine

Gallup - Heroin

Glo - Crack Cocaine

Gamot - Heroin

Go on a sleigh ride -

Gank - Fake crack

Goat - Heroin

Garbage - Inferior quality marijuana; low quality

Gold - Marijuana; Crack Cocaine; heroin

heroin

Gold dust - Cocaine

Garbage heads - Users who buy crack from street

Golden brown Heroin, from its color

dealers instead of cooking it themselves

Golden girl - Heroin

Garbage rock - Crack Cocaine

Golf ball - Crack Cocaine

Gato (Spanish) - Heroin

Golpe - Heroin

Gear - Heroin

Goma (Spanish) - Black tar heroin plus opium

Geek - Crack mixed with marijuana

Gone, Shot to the curb - Lost everything to crack

Glad stuff - Cocaine

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Good - PCP; heroin

Happy trails - Cocaine

Good and plenty - Heroin

Hard - Crack Cocaine

Good H - Heroin

Hard ball - Crack Cocaine

Good Horse - Heroin

Hard candy - Heroin

Goofball - Crack Cocaine

Hard line - Crack Cocaine

Goop - Heroin

Hard rock - Crack Cocaine

Gravel - Crack Cocaine

Hard stuff - Heroin; opium

Gravy - Heroin; to inject a drug

Harry - Heroin

Greek - Combination of marijuana and powder

Have a dust - Cocaine

cocaine

Haven dust - Cocaine

Gremmies - Combination of cocaine and marijuana

Hayron - Heroin

Grit - Crack Cocaine

Hazel - Heroin

Groceries - Crack Cocaine

Heaven - Cocaine; heroin

G-rock - One gram rock cocaine

Heaven dust - Cocaine; heroin

Gun Powder - Heroin

Helen - Heroin

Hell - Crack Cocaine

H - Heroin

Henpecking - Searching on hands and knees for

HBomb -

crack

H & C - Heroin and cocaine

Henry - Heroin

H Caps - Heroin

Henry VIII - Cocaine

Hache - Heroin

Her - Cocaine

Hail - Crack Cocaine

Hera - Heroin

Hairy - Heroin

Hero - Heroin

Half a football field - 50 rocks of crack

Hero of the underworld - Heroin

Half load - 15 bags (decks) of heroin

Heroina (Spanish) - Heroin

Half piece - 1/2 ounce of heroin or cocaine

Herone - Heroin

Half track - Crack Cocaine

He-she - Heroin mixed with cocaine

Hamburger helper - Crack Cocaine

Hessle - Heroin

Hamburger(s) -- Cocaine, from Cheech & Chong's

High beams - The wide eyes of a person on crack

Nice Dreams"

Him - Heroin

Handlebars - Combination of crack cocaine and

Hit - To smoke marijuana; marijuana cigarette; Crack

alprazolam

Cocaine

Hand-to-hand man - Transient dealers who carry

Hitch up the reindeers - To inhale cocaine

small amounts of crack

Hitters - People who inject others who have hard

Happy dust - Cocaine

Time to find veins in exchange for drugs

Happy powder - Cocaine

Hocus Pocus - Cocaine

Hell dust - Heroin

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Holy terror - Heroin

methylenedioxymethamphetamine (MDMA);

Hombre (Spanish) - Heroin

phencyclidine (PCP)

Homicide - Heroin cut with scopolamine or

Ice cube - Crack Cocaine

strychnine

Icing - Cocaine

Hong-yen - Heroin in pill form

Inca message - Cocaine

Hooter - Cocaine; marijuana

Interplanetary mission - Travel from one crack

Hop Heroin

house to another to search for crack

Horn - To inhale cocaine; Crack pipe; to inhale a

Isda - Heroin

drug

Issues - Crack Cocaine

Horning - To inhale cocaine; heroin

Ivory Flakes - Cocaine

Horse - Heroin
Horse bite - Heroin

Hospital heroin - Diluadid

Jam - Cocaine; amphetamine

Hot dope - Heroin

Jee gee - Heroin

Hot heroin - Heroin poisoned to give to a police

Jejo - Cocaine

informant

Jelly - Cocaine

Hotcakes - Crack Cocaine

Jelly beans - Crack Cocaine

House fee - Money paid to enter a crack house

Jerry Springer - Heroin

House piece - Crack given to the owner of a crack

Jim Jones - Marijuana laced with cocaine and PCP

house or apartment where crack users congregate

Jive - Marijuana; heroin; drugs

How do you like me now? - Crack Cocaine

Jive doo jee - Heroin

HRN - Heroin

Joharito - Heroin

Hubba - Crack Cocaine

Johnson - Crack Cocaine

Hubba pigeon - Crack users looking for rocks on the

Jojee - Heroin

floor after a police raid

Jolly pop - Casual user of heroin

Hubba, I am back - Crack Cocaine

Jones - Heroin

Hubbas - Crack

Joy - Heroin

Hubbas (Northern CA) - Crack; I am back

Joy flakes - Heroin

Hunter Cocaine

Joy powder - Cocaine; heroin

Hydro - Cocaine

Juice joint - Marijuana cigarette sprinkled with crack

Hype - Heroin addict; an addict;

Jum - Sealed plastic bag containing crack

methylenedioxymethamphetamine (MDMA)

Jumbos - Large vials of crack sold on the streets;

marijuana mixed with crack

I am back - Crack

Junk - Cocaine; heroin

Ice - Cocaine; crack cocaine; smokable

Junkie An opiate addict

Junco - Heroin

methamphetamine; methamphetamine;

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Liprimo - Marijuana and crack rolled in a joint

Liquid lady - Cocaine that is dissolved in water and

Kabayo - Heroin

ingested as a nasal spray

Kabuki - Crack pipe made from a plastic rum bottle

Little bomb - Heroin; amphetamine; depressants

and a rubber sparkplug cover

Little boy - Heroin

Kaka Water - Heroin

Load - 25 bags of heroin

Kangaroo - Crack Cocaine

Love - Crack Cocaine

Karachi - Heroin, phenobarbital, and methaqualone

Love affair - Cocaine

Key Kilo, 2.2 pounds

Love boat - Marijuana dipped in formaldehyde; PCP;

Kibbles & Bits - Small crumbs of crack

blunts mixed with marijuana and heroin; blunts mixed

Kilo 2.2 pounds

with marijuana and PCP

King - Cocaine

Lucifer Left Nostril - Cocaine

King's habit - Cocaine

Kissing - The exchange of plastic wrapped rocks

(crack) by kissing or through mouth to mouth transfer

Ma'a - Crack cocaine (Samoan)

Kitty - Cocaine

Mac - Heroin

Klingons - Crack addicts

Macaroni and Cheese - $5 pack of marijuana and a

Kokomo - Crack Cocaine

dime bag of cocaine

Kryptonite - Crack cocaine; marijuana

Mama coca - Cocaine

Manteca (Spanish) - Heroin

La Buena (Spanish) - Heroin

Marching powder - Cocaine

La Chiva ("goat") - Heroin

Maserati - Crack pipe made from a plastic rum bottle

Lace - Cocaine and marijuana

and a rubber sparkplug cover

Lady - Cocaine; heroin

Matsakow - Heroin

Lady C - Cocaine

Mayo - Cocaine; heroin

Marching dust - Cocaine

Merck - Cocaine
Lady Caine - Cocaine

Merk - Cocaine

Lady H - Heroin

Meth speed ball - Methamphetamine combined with

Lady snow- Cocaine

heroin

Lamborghini - Crack pipe made from a plastic rum

Mexican brown - Marijuana; heroin

bottle and a rubber sparkplug cover

Mexican horse - Heroin

Late night - Cocaine

Mexican mud - Heroin

LBJ - Heroin plus LSD plus PCP

Mexican speedballs - Crack and methamphetamine

Leaf - Cocaine; Marijuana

Mighty white - A form of crack cocaine that is hard,

Lemonade - Heroin; poor quality drugs

white, and pure

Line - Cocaine

Missile basing - Crack liquid and PCP

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Mission - Trip out of the crack house to obtain crack

Nickel bag - $5 worth of drugs; heroin

Mist - PCP; crack smoke in the bottom of a glass

Nickel deck - Heroin

pipe

Nickelonians - Crack addicts

Mix Cocaine; or a drug environment

Nieve (Spanish) - Cocaine

Mixed jive - Crack Cocaine

Nod - Effects of heroin

Mo - Marijuana; powder cocaine

Noddy Brown Heroin

Mobbeles - Cocaine

Noise - Heroin

Mojo - Cocaine; heroin

Nontoucher - Crack user who doesn't want affection

Money talks - Heroin

during or after smoking crack

Monkey - Cigarette made from cocaine paste and

Nose - Cocaine; heroin

tobacco; drug dependency; heroin

Nose candy - Cocaine

Monos (Spanish) - Cigarette made from cocaine

Nose drops - Liquefied heroin

paste and tobacco

Nose Nachos - Cocaine

Monster - Cocaine

Nose powder - Cocaine

Moon rock - Crack mixed with heroin

Nose stuff - Cocaine

Moonstone - When a dealer shaves a slice of

Nuggets - Crack Cocaine

methylenedioxymethamphetamine (MDMA) into a

Number 3 - Cocaine; heroin

bag of heroin

Number 4 - Heroin

Morning wake-up - First blast of crack from the pipe

Number 8 - Heroin

Morotgara - Heroin

Nurse Heroin

Mortal combat - High potency heroin

Mosquitoes - Cocaine
Mother Pearl - Heroin

Mr. Brownstone - Heroin

Ogoy - Heroin

Mud - Heroin plus opium

Oil - Heroin; PCP

Mujer (Spanish) - Cocaine

Old garbage - Heroin

Murder One - Heroin and cocaine

Old navy - Heroin

Murotugora - Heroin

Old Steve - Heroin

Muzzle Heroin

On a mission - Searching for crack and/or being

high on crack

Nachos - Cocaine

methylenedioxymethamphetamine

Nanoo - Heroin

One and one - To inhale cocaine

New addition - Crack Cocaine

One bomb - 100 rocks of crack cocaine

New Jack Swing - Heroin and morphine

One on one house - Where cocaine and heroin can

Nice and easy - Heroin

be purchased

Movie star drug Cocaine

On the ball - When a dealer shaves a slice of

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One plus one sales - Selling cocaine and heroin

Perfect High - Heroin

together

Perico (Spanish) - Cocaine

One tissue box - 1 ounce of crack

Perlas (Spanish) - Street dealer (heroin)

One way - LSD; heroin

Perp - Fake crack made of candle wax and baking

One-fifty-one - Crack; crack sprinkled on tobacco

soda

Onion - 1 oz. of crack cocaine

Peruvian - Cocaine

Oolies - Marijuana cigarettes laced with crack

Peruvian flake - Cocaine

Orange line - Heroin

Peruvian lady - Cocaine

Outer limits - Crack and LSD

P-funk - Crack mixed with PCP; heroin

Oyster stew - Cocaine

Pianoing - Using the fingers to find lost crack

Ozone Marijuana, PCP and crack cigarette;

Picking - Searching on hands and knees for cocaine

marijuana cigarette; PCP

or crack

Piece - Cocaine; Crack Cocaine; 1 ounce

Piedra (Spanish) - Crack Cocaine

Pack - Marijuana; heroin

Piles - Crack Cocaine

Pangonadalot - Heroin

Pimp - Cocaine

Paper - A dosage unit of heroin; one-tenth of a gram

Pimp your pipe - Lending or renting crack pipe or

or less of the drug ice or methamphetamine

stem

Paper boy - Heroin peddler

Pipe - Crack pipe; marijuana pipe; vein into which a

Parachute - Crack and PCP smoked; heroin;

drug is injected; mix drugs with other substances

smokable crack and heroin mixture

Pipero (Spanish) - Crack user

Parachute down - Use of MDMA after heroin

Pluto - Heroin

Paradise - Cocaine

Poison - Heroin; fentanyl

Paradise white - Cocaine

Polo - Mixture of heroin and motion sickness drug

Pariba Powder cocaine

Polvo (Spanish) - Heroin; PCP

Parlay - Crack cocaine

Polvo blanco (Spanish) - Cocaine

Paste - Crack cocaine

Pony - Crack Cocaine

Patico (Spanish) - Crack cocaine

Pop - To inhale cocaine; crack cocaine

P-dogs - Combination of cocaine and marijuana

Poppy - Heroin

P-dope - 20-30% pure heroin

Poro - Heroin plus PCP (phencyclidine)

Pearl - Cocaine

Potato chips - Crack cut with benzocaine

Pebbles - Crack Cocaine

Powder - Cocaine HCL; heroin; amphetamine

Pee Wee - Crack Cocaine; $5 worth of crack

Powder diamonds - Cocaine

Peg Heroin

Power puller - Rubber piece attached to crack stem

Pepper - Heroin

Predator - Heroin

Percia - Cocaine

Premos - Marijuana joints laced with crack cocaine

Percio - Cocaine

Press - Cocaine; Crack Cocaine

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Prime time - Crack Cocaine

Raw hide - Heroin

Primo - Crack; marijuana mixed with cocaine; crack

Ready rock - Cocaine; crack cocaine; heroin

and heroin; heroin, cocaine and tobacco

Real tops - Crack cocaine

Primo Square - A marijuana joint laced with crack

Recompress - Change the shape of cocaine flakes

Primo turbo - Combination of crack cocaine and

to resemble "rock"

marijuana

Red caps - Crack cocaine

Primos - Cigarette laced with cocaine and heroin

Red chicken - Heroin

Product - Crack Cocaine

Red devil - Depressants; PCP; heroin

Pseudocaine - Crack cocaine cut with

Red eagle - Heroin

phenylpropanolamine

Red rock - Heroin

Puffer - Crack smoker

Red rock opium Heroin, barbital, strychnine, and

Pulborn - Heroin

caffeine

Pullers - Crack users who pull at parts of their bodies

Red rum - Heroin, barbital, strychnine, and caffeine

excessively

Red stuff - Heroin, barbital, strychnine, and caffeine

Pumping - Selling crack

Regular "P" - Crack Cocaine

Pure - Heroin

Reindeer dust - Heroin

Purple caps - Crack cocaine

Res - Potent residue left as a result of smoking crack

Purple haze - LSD; crack cocaine; marijuana

which is scraped and smoked

Pusher Metal hanger or umbrella rod used to

Rest in peace - Crack Cocaine

scrape residue out of crack stems; one who sells

Rhine - Heroin

drugs

Rider - 5 kilograms of heroin sometimes provided at

no cost per 100 kilograms of cocaine imported from

Quill Cocaine; heroin; methamphetamine

Ringer - Good hit of crack; hear bells

Colombia
Roca (Spanish) - Crack Cocaine;
methylenedioxymethamphetamine (MDMA)

Rob Flaherty - Heroin

Racehorse Charlie - Cocaine; heroin

Rock house - Place where crack is sold and smoked

Ragweed - Inferior quality marijuana; heroin

Rock star - Female who trades sex for crack or

Railers - Cocaine

money to buy crack; a person who uses rock cocaine

Rambo - Heroin

Rock(s) - Cocaine; Crack Cocaine

Rane - Cocaine; heroin

Rocket caps - Dome-shaped caps on crack vials

Raspberry - Female who trades sex for crack or

Rockette - Female who uses crack

money to buy crack

Rocks of hell - Crack Cocaine

Raw - Crack cocaine; high purity heroin

Rocky III - Crack Cocaine

Raw fusion - Heroin

Rooster - Crack Cocaine

Rock attack - Crack Cocaine

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Rox - Crack Cocaine

methamphetamine;

Roxanne - Cocaine; crack

methylenedioxymethamphetamine (MDMA)

Roz - Crack Cocaine

Shake - Marijuana; powder cocaine

Rush - Cocaine; isobutyl nitrite; inhalants

Shaker/baker/water - Materials needed to freebase

Rush hour - Heroin

cocaine: shaker bottle, baking soda, water

She Cocaine

Sack - Heroin

Shebanging - Mixing cocaine with water and

Salt - Heroin

squirting it up nose

Sandwich - Two layers of cocaine with a layer of

Sheet rocking - Crack and LSD

heroin in the middle

Sherman stick - Crack cocaine combined with

Scag - Heroin

marijuana in a blunt

Scat - Heroin

Sherms - Crack Cocaine; PCP; cigars dipped in or

Scate - Heroin

laced with PCP

Schmeck - Cocaine

Shmeck/schmeek - Heroin

Schoolboy - Cocaine; codeine

Shoot - Heroin

Schoolcraft - Crack Cocaine

Shot - To inject a drug; an amount of cocaine; 10

Scorpion - Cocaine

shot or 20 shot

Scott - Heroin

Shot to the curb - A person who has lost it all to

Scottie - Cocaine

crack

Scotty - Cocaine; crack; the high from crack

Showbiz Sherbert - Cocaine

Scrabble - Crack Cocaine

Shrile - Powder cocaine

Scramble - Crack cocaine; low purity, adulterated

Sight ball - Crack Cocaine

heroin plus crack cocaine

Silk - Heroin

Scrape and snort - To share crack by scraping off

Sixty-two -

small pieces to snort

Ska - Heroin

Scruples - Crack Cocaine

Skag - Heroin

Second to none - Heroin

Skeegers/skeezers - Crack-smoking prostitute

Seconds - Second inhalation of crack from a pipe

Skeeter - Cocaine

Serial speedballing -

Skid - Heroin

Serpico 21 - Cocaine

Skunk - Marijuana; heroin

Server - Crack dealer

Slab - A large piece of crack cocaine the size of a

Seven-Up - Crack Cocaine

stick of chewing gum

Sh*t - Heroin

Sleeper - Heroin; depressants

Shabu - Combination of powder cocaine and

Sleeper and red devil - Heroin plus a depressant

methamphetamine; crack cocaine;

Sleet - Crack Cocaine

Shnazzle - Cocaine

Sleigh ride - Cocaine

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Speedball - Cocaine mixed with heroin; crack and

Smack Heroin, from the action of smacking the arm

heroin smoked together; methylphenidate (Ritalin)

to produce a prominent vein in which to inject the

mixed with heroin; amphetamine

drug

Speedballing - To shoot up or smoke a mixture of

Smoke - Marijuana; Crack Cocaine; heroin and crack

cocaine and heroin; ecstasy mixed with ketamine; the

Smoke houses - Crack houses

simultaneous use of a stimulant with a depressant

Smoking gun - Heroin and cocaine

Speedballs-nose-style - The practice of snorting

Sniff - To inhale cocaine; methcathinone; inhalants

cocaine

Sniffer bag - $5 bag of heroin intended for inhalation

Speedboat - Marijuana, PCP, and crack combined

Snort - To inhale cocaine; powder cocaine; use

and smoked

inhalant

Spider - Heroin

Snotty - Heroin

Spider blue - Heroin

Snow - Cocaine; heroin; amphetamine

Spike - Heroin cut with scopolamine or strychnine; to

Snow Angels - Cocaine

inject a drug; needle; hypodermic needle

Snow bird - Cocaine user; cocaine

Splitting - Rolling marijuana and cocaine into a

Snow coke - Crack Cocaine

single joint

Snow seals - Cocaine and amphetamine

Spoon - 1/16 ounce of heroin; paraphernalia used to

Snow White - Cocaine

prepare heroin for injection

Snowball - Heroin and cocaine

Sporting - To inhale cocaine

Snow cones - Cocaine

Square time Bob - Crack cocaine

Soap - Gamma hydroxybutyrate (GHB); crack

Squirrel - Combination of PCP and marijuana,

cocaine; methamphetamine

sprinkled with cocaine and smoked; marijuana, PCP,

Society high - Cocaine

and crack combined and smoked; LSD

Soda - Injectable cocaine

Stacks - Methylenedioxymethamphetamine (MDMA)

Soft - Powder cocaine

adulterated with heroin or crack

Soup - Crack cocaine

Star - Cocaine; amphetamine; methcathinone

Space - Crack cocaine

Star Dust - Cocaine; PCP

Space base - Crack dipped in PCP; hollowed out

Star-spangled powder - Cocaine

cigar refilled with PCP and crack

Steerer - Person who directs customers to spots for

Space cadet - Crack dipped in PCP

buying crack; worker who directs buyers to where

Space dust - Crack dipped in PCP

drugs are sold

Space ship - Glass pipe used to smoke crack

Stem - Cylinder used to smoke crack

Space ball - PCP used with crack or powder cocaine

Stones - Crack cocaine

Speed - Crack Cocaine; amphetamine;

Strawberry - LSD; female who trades sex for crack

methamphetamine

or money to buy crack

Studio fuel - Cocaine
Stuff - Heroin

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Sugar - Cocaine; Crack cocaine; heroin; LSD

Thirst monster - Crack smoker

Sugar block - Crack Cocaine

Thirst monsters - Heavy crack smokers

Sugar boogers - Powder cocaine

Thirty-eight - Crack sprinkled on marijuana

Sweet dreams - Heroin

Thunder - Heroin

Sweet Jesus - Heroin

Tigre (Spanish) - Heroin

Sweet stuff - Cocaine; heroin

Tigre Blanco (Spanish) - Heroin

Swell up Crack Cocaine

Tigre Del Norte (Spanish) - Heroin

Tio - Cocaine-laced marijuana cigarette

T - Cocaine; Marijuana

Tits - Black tar heroin

T.N.T. - Heroin; fentanyl

TNT - Heroin plus fentanyl

Talco (Spanish) - Cocaine

Toke - To inhale cocaine; to smoke marijuana;

Tar - Crack and heroin smoked together; heroin;

marijuana

opium

Tongs Heroin

Tar dust - Cocaine

Tonys - Cocaine, after Tony Montana from Scarface

Taste - Heroin; small sample of drugs

Toot - Cocaine; to inhale cocaine

Taxing - Price paid to enter a crack house; charging

Tooter Small, hollow tube (straw-like) to sniff

more per vial depending on race of customer or if not

cocaine

a regular customer

Tootsie roll - Heroin

Teardrops - Dosage units of crack packaged in the

Top drool - Heroin

cut-off corners of plastic bags

Top gun - Crack Cocaine

Tecata (Spanish) - Heroin

Topo (Spanish) - Crack Cocaine

Tecatos - Hispanic heroin addict

Torch cooking - Smoking cocaine base by using a

Teenager - Cocaine

propane or butane torch as a source of flame

Teeth - Cocaine; Crack Cocaine

Tornado - Crack Cocaine

Tension - Crack Cocaine

Torpedo - Marijuana and crack

Thanie - Heroin

Toss up - Crack Cocaine; female who trades sex for

The beast - Heroin

crack or money to buy crack

The bomb - Heroin; fentanyl

Toss-ups - Crack Cocaine

The devil - Crack Cocaine

Toucher - User of crack who wants affection before,

The five way - Heroin plus cocaine plus

during, or after smoking crack

methamphetamine plus Rohypnol (flunitrazepam)

Tragic magic - Crack dipped in PCP

plus alcohol

Trails - Cocaine; LSD induced perception that

The witch Heroin

moving objects leave multiple images or trails behind

The White Lion - Cocaine

them

Thing - Cocaine; Crack Cocaine; heroin; main drug

Train - Heroin

interest at the moment

Trey - Small rock of crack cocaine

Tissue - Crack Cocaine

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Troop - Crack Cocaine

White cloud - Smoke that collects in bottom of crack

Turbo - Marijuana and crack

pipe; crack smoke

Turkey - Cocaine; amphetamine

White dragon - Heroin; powder cocaine]

Tutti-frutti (Portuguese) - Flavored cocaine

White dust - Cocaine

Tweak mission - A person on a mission to find crack

White ghost - Crack Cocaine

Tweaker - Crack user looking for drugs on the floor

White girl - Cocaine; heroin

after a police raid

White horse - Cocaine; heroin

Tweaking - Drug-induced paranoia; peaking on

White junk - Heroin

speed; desperately searching for crack

White Lady - Cocaine; heroin

Tweaks - Crack Cocaine

White mosquito -

Twenties - $20 vials or bags of crack

White nurse - Heroin

Twenty - $20 rock of crack

White powder - Cocaine; PCP

Twenty rock - Crack Cocaine

White stuff - Heroin

Twin towers - Heroin (after September 11)

White sugar - Crack Cocaine

Twinkie - Crack Cocaine

White tornado - Crack Cocaine

Twisters - Crack and methamphetamine

Whiz bang - Cocaine; Heroin and cocaine

Twists - Small plastic bags of heroin secured with a

Wicked - A potent brand of heroin

twist tie

Wicky - Combination of powder cocaine, PCP and

Two for Nine Two $5 vials or bags of crack for $9

marijuana

Wicky stick - PCP, marijuana, and crack

Ultimate - Crack Cocaine

Window pane - LSD; crack cocaine

Uptown - Powder cocaine

Wings - Cocaine; heroin

Uzi - Crack; crack pipe

Witch - Cocaine; heroin

Witch hazel - Heroin

Vidrio (Spanish) - Heroin

cigarette or in a cigar

Woo blunts - Marijuana; marijuana combined with

Wave - Crack Cocaine

Woola blunt - Marijuana and heroin combination

Weightless - High on crack

Woolah - Hollowed out cigar refilled with marijuana

Whack - Crack Cocaine; heroin and PCP;

and crack

Crack/PCP mixture or marijuana laced with

Woolas - Cigarettes laced with cocaine; crack

insecticides

sprinkled on marijuana cigarette

White Cocaine; Heroin; amphetamine

Woolie - Marijuana and heroin combination;

White ball - Crack Cocaine

marijuana and crack cocaine combination

Wild cat - Methcathinone mixed with cocaine

Wollie - Rocks of crack rolled into a marijuana

cocaine

White boy - Heroin; powder cocaine

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Woolie blunt - Combination of crack cocaine and

marijuana
Wooly blunts - Marijuana and crack or PCP

Numbers

Wooties - Crack smoked in marijuana joints

151 Crack Cocaine

Working - Selling crack

24-7 Crack Cocaine

Working bags - Bags containing several small rocks

2-for-1 sale A marketing scheme designed to

of crack cocaine

promote and increase crack sales

Working fifty - Crack rock weighing 1/2 gram or

256 --- Cocaine, "BLO" on the telephone keypad

more

3750 Marijuana and crack rolled in a joint

Working half - Crack rock weighing 1/2 gram or

51 - Combination of crack cocaine with marijuana or

more

tobacco

Wrecking crew - Crack Cocaine

57 Chevy Heroin, from the Eric Clapton song "Rock

WTC Heroin (after September 11)

'N' Roll Heart"

Woolies - Marijuana and crack or PCP

Y
Yahoo/yeaho - Crack Cocaine
Yak - Cocaine Southwestern colloquial
Yale - Crack Cocaine
Yam - Crack Cocaine
Yao - Powder cocaine, pronounced "yay-O"
Yay - Rock of crack cocaine
Yayoo - Crack Cocaine
Yeah-O - Crack Cocaine
Yeo - Crack Cocaine
Yeola - Marijuana and crack
Yeyo (Spanish) - Cocaine
Yimyom Crack Cocaine

Z
Z - 1 ounce of heroin
Zip - Cocaine
Zoomer - Individual who sells fake crack and then
flees
Zoquete (Spanish) - Heroin
Zulu - Bogus crack

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