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Dictionary of Street Names for Cocaine, Crack Cocaine and Heroin
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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
B
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
C
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
D
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
E
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
G
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
H
Hell - Crack Cocaine
H - Heroin
Henpecking - Searching on hands and knees for
H–Bomb -
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
J
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;
I
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
M
(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
L
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
O
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
N
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
P
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
Q
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)
R
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
S
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
T
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
Tony’s - 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
U
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
V
Witch hazel - Heroin
Vidrio (Spanish) - Heroin
cigarette or in a cigar
W
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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