Law enforcement officers must deal with drugs and drug-related crime on a day-to-day basis. Dealers and users, however, are creative in their drug-related slang. Hearing a conversation where the words "anti-freeze" or "chocolate chip cookies" are used may not be as harmless as the cover implies. Both of these words are slang terms for particular illicit drugs. Check out the links below to find out the true meaning of these terms (and many others) in the drug world.

Drug Abuse Slang Dictionary

2-for-1 sale A marketing scheme designed to promote and increase crack sales
A-boot Under the influence of drugs
Abe $5 worth of drugs
Abe's cabe $5 bill
Acid freak Heavy user of LSD
Acid head User of LSD
Ad PCP; drug addict
Agonies Withdrawal symptoms
Airhead Marijuana user
All lit up Under the influence of drugs
All star User of multiple drugs
Amp head LSD user
Amped-out Fatigue after using amphetamine
Amping Accelerated heartbeat
Are you anywhere? Do you use marijuana?
Around the turn Having gone through withdrawal period
Artillery Equipment for injecting drugs
Author Doctor who writes illegal prescriptions

B Amount of marijuana to fill a matchbox
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
Backtrack Allow blood to flow back into a needle during injection
Backup To prepare a vein for injection
Bad go Bad reaction to a drug
Bag Container for drugs; a package of drugs, usually marijuana or heroin; a person's favorite drug
Bag bride Crack-smoking prostitute
Bag man Person who transports money; a person who supplies narcotics or other drugs, a pusher
Balling Vaginally implanted cocaine
Balloon Heroin supplier; a penny balloon that contains narcotics
Bang Inhalants; to inject a drug
Banging Under the influence of drugs
Base crazies Searching on hands and knees for cocaine or crack
Base head A person who bases
Based out To have lost control over basing
Batt IV needle; hypodermic needle
Batted out Apprehended by law
Beamer Crack smoker
Bean A capsule containing drugs
Beat artist Person selling bogus drugs
Beat vials Viles containing sham crack to cheat buyers
Bed bugs Fellow addicts
Behind the scale To weigh and sell cocaine
Beiging Chemicals altering cocaine to make it appear a higher purity; chemically altering cocaine to make it look brown
Belt Effects of drugs
Belted Under the influence of a drug
Bender Drug party
Big 8 1/8 kilogram crack
Big man Drug supplier
Bindle Small packet of drug powder; heroin
Bing Enough drug for one injection
Bingers Crack addicts
Bingo To inject a drug
Biscuit 50 rocks of crack
Biz Bag or portion of drugs
Blasted Under the influence of drugs
Blow a fix/blow a shot Injection misses the vein and is wasted in the skin
Blow up Crack cut with lidocaine to increase size, weight, and street value
Body-packer Individual who ingests wrapped packets of crack or cocaine to transport
Body-stuffer Individual who ingests crack vials to avoid prosecution
Bogart a joint Salivate on a marijuana cigarette; refuse to share
Bomb squad Name of crack-selling crew
Bong Pipe used to smoke marijuana
Book 100 dosage units of LSD
Boost Crack Cocaine; to steal; to inject a drug
Boost and shoot Steal to support a habit
Booted Under the influence of drugs
Boulder Crack Cocaine; $20 worth of crack
Boxed In jail
Break night Staying up all night on a cocaine binge until daybreak
Breakdown $40 of crack cocaine that can be broken down into $20 packages
Brewery Place where drugs are made
Brick Crack Cocaine; cocaine; marijuana; 1 kilogram of marijuana
Bridge or bring up Ready a vein for injection
Broker Go between in a drug deal; heavy drug user
Buck Shoot someone in the head
Buffer A woman who performs oral sex in exchange for crack; crack smoker
Bugged Irritated; to be covered with sores and abscesses from repeated use of unsterile needles
Bull Narcotics agent or police officer
Bummer trip Unsettling and threatening experience from PCP intoxication
Bump Crack; fake crack; cocaine; boost a high; hit of ketamine ($20)
Burn the main line To inject a drug
Burn transaction Selling a substance as a certain drug
Burned Purchase fake drugs
Burned out Collapse of veins from repeated injections; permanent impairment
from drug abuse
Burnout Heavy abuser of drugs
Busted Arrested
Buzz Under the influence of drugs

C joint Place where cocaine is sold
Cabbage head An individual who will use or experiment with any kind of drug
Cad/Cadillac 1 ounce
Cafeteria use Use of various drugs simultaneously, particularly sedatives or hypnotics
Can Marijuana; 1 ounce
Candyman Drug supplier
Cap Crack Cocaine; LSD; a capsule of a drug
Cap up Transfer bulk form drugs to capsules
Carpet patrol Crack smokers searching the floor for crack
Carry To be in posession of drugs
Chalked up Under the influence of cocaine
Chalking Chemically altering the color of cocaine so it looks white
Channel Vein into which a drug is injected
Charged up Under the influence of drugs
Chaser Compulsive crack user
Check Personal supply of drugs
Chicken scratch Searching on hands and knees for crack or cocaine
Chipper Occasional user; occasional heroin user; occasional Hispanic user
Chipping Using drugs occasionally
Clear up Stop drug use
Clips Rows of vials heat-sealed together
ClockerEntry level crack dealers who sell drugs 24 hours a day
Clocking paper Profits from selling drugs
Closet baser User of crack who prefers anonymity
Coasting Under the influence of drugs
Coco snow Benzocaine used as cutting agent for crack
Cod Large amount of money
Coke bar A bar where cocaine is openly used
Cold turkey Sudden withdrawal from drugs
Come up A person who sells drugs for money; to take a small amount of money and increase to a large amount
Connect Purchase drugs; supplier of illegal drugs
Cook Mix heroin with water; heating heroin to prepare it for injection
Cook down Process in which users liquify heroin in order to inhale it
Cooker To inject a drug; person who manufactures methamphetamine
Cooking up To process powdered cocaine into crack
Copping zones Specific areas where buyers can purchase drugs
Coriander seeds Cash
Cotton Currency
Cotton fever Critically high temperature associated with accidentally injecting cotton fibers into blood stream
Course note Bill larger than $2
Crack gallery Place where crack is bought and sold
Crack house Place where crack is used
Crack Kits Glass pipe and copper mesh
Crack spot Area where people can purchase crack; place where crack is sold, but not used
Cranking up To inject a drug
CrashSleep off effects of drugs
Credit card Crack stem
Cube LSD; 1 ounce
Cushion Vein into which a drug is injected
Cut Adulterate drugs

Dabble Use drugs occasionally
Deck 1 to 15 grams of heroin, also known as a bag; packet of drugs
Deuce Heroin; $2 worth of drugs
Devil's dick Crack pipe
Dews $10 worth of drugs
Dime Crack Cocaine; $10 worth of crack
Dime bag $10 worth of drugs
Dime's worth Amount of heroin to cause death
Dinosaurs Populations of heroin users in their forties and fifties
Disease Drug of choice
Dog Good friend
Dollar $100 worth of drugs
Dope fiend A person who is drug dependent; crack adict
Doub$20 rock of crack
Double up When a crack dealer delivers an extra rock as a marketing ploy to attract customers
Double ups A $20 rock that can be broken into two $20 rocks
Dove $35 piece of crack
Draw up To inject a drug
Drop To swallow drugs
Dropper To inject a drug
Dub When a crack dealer delivers an extra rock as a marketing ploy to attract customer
Dump To vomit after taking drugs

Easy score Obtaining drugs without difficulties
Eating Taking a drug orally
Eight ball 1/8 ounce of drugs
Emergency gun Instrument used to inject other than a syringe

Factory Place where drugs are packaged, diluted, or manufactured
Fall Arrested
Feed bag Container for marijuana
Feenin Behavior associated with a person craving cocaine or other addictive substances when they are unavailable
Fiend Someone who smokes marijuana alone
Fifteen cents $15 worth of drugs
Five C note $500 bill
Five cent bag $5 worth of drugs
Five dollar bag $50 worth of drugs
Five-way Combines snorting of heroin, cocaine, methamphetamine, ground up flunitrazepam pills, and drinking alcohol
Fix To inject a drug
FlagAppearance of blood in the vein
Flame cooking Smoking cocaine base by putting the pipe over a stove flame
Flying Under the influence of drugs
Following that cloud Searching for drugs
Freeze Cocaine; renege on a drug deal
Fuete Hypodermic needle

G $1000 or 1 gram of drugs; term for an unfamiliar male; GHB
G-rock One gram rock cocaine
G-shot Small dose of drugs used to hold off withdrawal symptoms until full dose can be taken
Gaffus Hypodermic needle
Garbage heads Users who buy crack from street dealers instead of cooking it themselves
Geeker Crack users
Geezer To inject a drug
Geezin a bit of dee gee To inject a drug
Get a gift Obtain drugs
Get downTo inject a drug
Get lifted Under the influence of drugs
Get off To inject a drug; get "high"
Get off houses Private places heroin users can purchase & use heroin for a fee
Get through Obtain drugs
Gimmick Drug injection equipment
Giro house Non-bank financial institutions for businesses frequently used by drug traffickers to launder drug proceeds
Give wings Inject someone or teach someone to inject heroin
Glass Heroin; amphetamine; hypodermic needle; methamphetamine
Glass gun Hypodermic needle
Go into a sewer To inject a drug; inject in the vein
Gone, Shot to the curb Lost everything to crack
Good go Proper amount of drugs for the money paid
Good lick Good drugs
Gopher Person paid to pickup drugs
Got it going on Fast sale of drugs
Graduate Completely stop using drugs; progress to stronger drugs
Gravy Heroin; to inject a drug
Grease Currency
Green goods Paper currency
Greens/green stuff Paper currency
Ground controlThe guide or caretaker during a hallucinogenic experience
Gun To inject a drug; needle; hypodermic needle
Gutter Vein into which a drug is injected
Gutter junkie Addict who relies on others to obtain drugs

Half 1/2 ounce
Half a football field 50 rocks of crack
Half G $500
Half load 15 bags (decks) of heroin
Half piece 1/2 ounce of heroin or cocaine
Half-a-C $50 bill
Hand-to-hand Direct delivery and payment
Hand-to-hand man Transient dealers who carry small amounts of crack
Head shop Store specializing in the sale of drug paraphernalia
Heat The police or narcotics officers
Heeled Having plenty of money
Henpecking Searching on hands and knees for crack
Highbeams The wide eyes of a person on crack
Hit house House where users go to shoot up and leave the owner drugs as payment
Hit the main line To inject a drug
Hit the needle To inject a drug
Hit the pit To inject a drug
Hitter Little pipe designed for only one hit
Hitting up To inject a drug
Holding Possessing drugs
Honey Currency
Honeymoon Early stages of drug use before addiction or dependency develops
Hooked Addicted
Hopped up Under the influence of drugs
Horn To inhale cocaine; Crack pipe; to inhale a drug
House fee Money paid to enter a crackhouse
House piece Crack given to the owner of a crackhouse or apartment where crack users congregate
Huffer Inhalant abuser
Hulling Using others to get drugs
HustleAttempt to obtain drug customers
HypeHeroin addict; an addict
Hype stick Hypodermic needle

Ice cream habit Occasional use of drugs
In Connected with drug suppliers
Interplanetary mission Travel from one crackhouse to another to search for crack

Jab/job To inject a drug
Jack Steal someone else's drugs
Jack-up To inject a drug
Jag Keep a high going
Jefferson airplane Used match cut in half to hold a partially smoked marijuana cigarette
Jolt Strong reaction to drugs; to inject a drug
Jonesing Need for drugs
Joy pop To inject a drug
Joy popping Occasional use of drugs
Juggle Sell drugs to another addict to support a habit
Juggler Teen-aged street dealer
Jum Sealed plastic bag containing crack
Jumbos Large vials of crack sold on the streets; marijuana mixed with crack
Junkie Addict
Junkie kits Glass pipe and copper mesh

Kabuki Crack pipe made from a plastic rum bottle and a rubber sparkplug cover
Kester plant Drugs hidden in the rectum
Kick Inhalants; getting off a drug habit
Kilo 2.2 pounds
Kissing The exchange of plastic wrapped rocks (crack) by kissing or through mouth to mouth transfer
Kit Equipment used to inject drugs
Klingons Crack addicts

Lamborghini Crack pipe made from a plastic rum bottle and a rubber sparkplug cover
Laugh and scratch To inject a drug
Lay-out Equipment for taking drugs
Leaping Under the influence of drugs
Lettuce Money
Lipton Tea Poor quality drugs
Lit up Under the influence of drugs
Load 25 bags of heroin
Loused Covered by sores and abscesses from repeated use of unsterile needles

Mainline To inject a drug
Mainliner Person who injects into the vein
Make upNeed to find more drugs
Maserati Crack pipe made from a plastic rum bottle and a rubber sparkplug cover
Meth monster One who has a violent reaction to methamphetamine
MissTo inject a drug
Mission Trip out of the crackhouse to obtain crack
Mix A term used to refer to cocaine or a drug environment
Mouth worker One who takes drugs orally

Nailed Arrested
Nickel note $5 bill
Nickelonians Crack addicts
Nix Stranger among the group
Nontoucher Crack user who doesn't want affection during or after smoking crack

O.Z. One ounce of a drug substance
On a mission Searching for crack and/or being high on crack
On a trip Under the influence of drugs
On ice In jail
On the bricks Walking the streets
One on one house Where cocaine and heroin can be purchased
One plus one sales Selling cocaine and heroin together
One tissue box 1 ounce of crack

Panic Drugs not available
PaperA dosage unit of heroin; one-tenth of a gram or less of the drug ice or methamphetamine
Paper bag Container for drugs
Paper boy Heroin peddler
Peddlar Drug supplier
Pee Wee Crack Cocaine; $5 worth of crack
Pepsi habit Occasional use of drugs
Perlas (Spanish) Street dealer (heroin)
Pianoing Using the fingers to find lost crack
Picking Searching on hands and knees for cocaine or crack
Piece Cocaine; Crack Cocaine; 1 ounce
Piggybacking Simultaneous injection of 2 drugs
Pimp your pipe Lending or renting crack pipe or stem
Ping-in-wing To inject a drug
Pipe Crack pipe; marijuana pipe; vein into which a drug is injected; mix drugs with other substances
Pipero (Spanish) Crack user
Plant Hiding place for drugs
Point A needle
Power puller Rubber piece attached to crack stem
PufferCrack smoker
Pullers Crack users who pull at parts of their bodies excessively
Pumping Selling crack
Push shorts To cheat; sell short amounts
Pusher Metal hanger or umbrella rod used to scrape residue out of crack stems; one who sells drugs

Quarter 1/4 ounce or $25 worth of drugs
Quarter bag $25 worth of drugs
Quarter piece 1/4 ounce

Rap Criminally charged; to talk with someone
Raspberry Female who trades sex for crack or money to buy crack
Rave Parties designed to enhance a hallucinogenic experience through music and behavior
Razed Under the influence of drugs
Red Under the influence of drugs
Rider 5 kilograms of heroin sometimes provided at no cost per 100 kilograms of cocaine imported from Colombia
Riding the wave Under the influence of drugs
Rig Equipment used to inject drugs
Rock house Place where crack is sold and smoked
Rock star Female who trades sex for crack or money to buy crack; a person who uses rock cocaine
Rocket caps Dome-shaped caps on crack vials
Rockette Female who uses crack
Roller To inject a drug
Rollers Police
Runners People who sell drugs for others

Sam Federal narcotics agent
Sancocho (Spanish) To steal
Sandwich bag $40 bag of marijuana
Satch Papers, letter, cards, clothing, etc., saturated with drug solution (Used to smuggle drugs into prisons or hospitals)
Satch cotton Fabric used to filter a solution of narcotics before injection
Score Purchase drugs
Scratch Money
Sewer Vein into which a drug is injected
Shaker/baker/water Materials needed to freebase cocaine: shaker bottle, baking soda, water
Sharps Hypodermic needles
Shoot/shoot up To inject a drug
Shooting galleryPlace where drugs are used
Shot To inject a drug; an amount of cocaine; 10 shot or 20 shot
Shot down Under the influence of drugs
Shot to the curb A person who has lost it all to crack
Sixty-two 1/2 ounces of poor quality crack
Skeegers/skeezers Crack-smoking prostitute
SkiedUnder the influence of drugs
Skin popping Injecting drugs under the skin; to inject drugs on any part of the body without hitting a vein
Slab A large piece of crack cocaine the size of a stick of chewing gum
Slam To inject a drug
Slanging Selling drugs
Smoke-out Under the influence of drugs
Sniffer bag $5 bag of heroin intended for inhalation
Space shipGlass pipe used to smoke crack
Spike Heroin cut with scopolamine or strychnine; to inject a drug; needle; hypodermic needle
Spoon 1/16 ounce of heroin; paraphernalia used to prepare heroin for injection
Sprung Person just starting to use drugs
Stash areas Drug storage and distribution areas
Steerer Person who directs customers to spots for buying crack; worker who directs buyers to where drugs are sold
Stem Cylinder used to smoke crack
Step on Dilute drugs
Stoned Under the influence of drugs
Strawberry LSD; female who trades sex for crack or money to buy crack
Strung out Heavily addicted to drugs

Taste Heroin; small sample of drugs
Taxing Price paid to enter a crackhouse; charging more per vial depending on race of customer or if not a regular customer
Teardrops Dosage units of crack packaged in the cut-off corners of plastic bags
Thoroughbred Drug dealer who sells pure narcotics
Tie To inject a drug
Tools Equipment used for injecting drugs
Torch cooking Smoking cocaine base by using a propane or butaine torch as a source of flame
Toss up Crack Cocaine; female who trades sex for crack or money to buy crack
Toucher User of crack who wants affection before, during, or after smoking crack
Tout Person who introduces buyers to sellers
Track To inject a drug
Tracks Row of needle marks on a person
Trap Hiding place for drugs
Tray $3 bag of marijuana
Trays Bunches of vials
Turf Place where drugs are sold
Turned on Introduced to drugs; under the influence
Tweak mission A person on a mission to find crack
Tweaker Crack user looking for drugs on the floor after a police raid
Tweaking Drug-induced paranoia; peaking on speed; desperately searching for crack
Twenties $20 vials or bags of crack
Twenty $20 rock of crack
Two for Nine Two $5 vials or bags of crack for $9

Wasted Under the influence of drugs; murdered
Wigging Odd behavior resulting from the use of mind-altering drugs
Working Selling crack
Working fifty Crack rock weighing 1/2 gram or more
Working half Crack rock weighing 1/2 gram or more
Works Equipment for injecting drugs
Wrecking crew Crack Cocaine

Z 1 ounce of heroin
Zombie PCP; heavy user of drugs
Zonked Extremely high on drugs
Zoomer Individual who sells fake crack and then flees