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| STREET TERM | DEFINITION |
| C | Cocaine |
| C & M | Cocaine and morphine |
| C joint | Place where cocaine is sold |
| C-dust | Cocaine |
| C-game | Cocaine |
| C.S. | Marijuana |
| Caballo (Spanish) | Heroin |
| Cabbage head | An individual who will use or experiment with any kind of drug |
| Cabello (Spanish) | Cocaine |
| Caca | Heroin |
| Cactus | Mescaline |
| Cactus buttons | Mescaline |
| Cactus head | Mescaline |
| Cad/Cadillac | 1 ounce |
| Cadillac | Cocaine; PCP |
| Cadillac express | Methcathinone |
| Cafeteria use | Use of various drugs simultaneously, particularly sedatives or hypnotics |
| Cafeteria-style use | Using a combination of different club drugs |
| Caine | Cocaine; Crack Cocaine |
| Cakes | Round discs of crack |
| Calbo (Spanish) | Heroin |
| California cornflakes | Cocaine |
| California sunshine | LSD |
| Cam trip | High potency marijuana |
| Cambodian red/Cam red | Marijuana from Cambodia |
| Came | Cocaine |
| Can | Marijuana; 1 ounce |
| Canade | Heroin/marijuana combination |
| Canadian black | Marijuana |
| Canamo | Marijuana |
| Canappa | Marijuana |
| Cancelled stick | Marijuana cigarette |
| Candy | Cocaine; Crack Cocaine; amphetamine; depressants |
| Candy blunt | Blunts dipped in cough syrup |
| Candy C | Cocaine |
| Candy flipping on a string | Combining or sequencing LSD with MDMA; mixing LSD, MDMA, and cocaine |
| Candy Raver | Young people who attend raves; rave attendees who wear candy jewelry |
| Candy sticks | Marijuana cigarettes laced with powdered cocaine |
| Candy sugar | Powder cocaine |
| Candy-flipping | LSD mixed with ecstasy |
| Candyman | Drug supplier |
| Cannabinol | PCP |
| Cannabis tea | Marijuana |
| Cap | Crack Cocaine; LSD; a capsule of a drug |
| Cap up | Transfer bulk form drugs to capsules |
| Capital H | Heroin |
| Caps | Heroin; psilocybin/psilocin; crack; Gamma Hydroxybutyrate (GHB) |
| Capsula (Spanish) | Crack Cocaine |
| Carburetor | Crack stem attachment |
| Care bears | Methylenedioxymethampehtamine (MDMA) |
| Carga (Spanish) | Heroin |
| Carmabis | Marijuana |
| Carne (Spanish) | Heroin |
| Carnie | Cocaine |
| Carpet patrol | Crack smokers searching the floor for crack |
| Carrie | Cocaine |
| Carrie Nation | Cocaine |
| Carry | To be in posession of drugs |
| Cartucho (Spanish) | Package of marijuana cigarettes |
| Cartwheels | Amphetamine |
| Casper | Crack Cocaine |
| Casper the ghost | Crack Cocaine |
| Cat | Methcathinone |
| Cat in the hats | Methylenedioxymethamphetamine (MDMA) |
| Cat killer | Ketamine |
| Cat valium | Ketamine |
| Catnip | Marijuana cigarette |
| Caviar | Combination of cocaine and marijuana; Crack Cocaine |
| Cavite all star | Marijuana |
| CDs | Crack cocaine |
| Cecil | Cocaine |
| Cest | Marijuana |
| Chalk | Crack cocaine; amphetamine; methamphetamine |
| Chalked up | Under the influence of cocaine |
| Chalking | Chemically altering the color of cocaine so it looks white |
| Champagne | Combination of cocaine and marijuana |
| Chandoo/chandu | Opium |
| Channel | Vein into which a drug is injected |
| Channel swimmer | One who injects heroin |
| Chapopote (Spanish) | Heroin |
| Charas | Marijuana from India |
| Charge | Marijuana |
| Charged up | Under the influence of drugs |
| Charity | Methylenedioxymethamphetamine (MDMA) |
| Charley | Heroin |
| Charlie | Cocaine |
| Chase | To smoke cocaine; to smoke marijuana |
| Chaser | Compulsive crack user |
| Chasing the dragon | Crack mixed with heroin |
| Chasing the tiger | To smoke heroin |
| Chatarra (Spanish) | Heroin |
| Cheap basing | Crack |
| Check | Personal supply of drugs |
| Cheeba | Marijuana |
| Cheeo | Marijuana |
| Cheese | Heroin; mix of ground-up cold medicine and a small amount of heroin, also black tar heroin combined with diphenhydramine |
| Chemical | Crack Cocaine |
| Chemo | Marijuana |
| Cherry Meth | Gamma hydroxybutyrate (GHB) |
| Chewies | Crack Cocaine |
| Chiba | Heroin |
| Chiba chiba | High potency marijuana from Colombia |
| Chicago black | Marijuana, term from Chicago |
| Chicago green | Marijuana |
| Chicken Feed | Methamphetamine |
| Chicken powder | Amphetamine |
| Chicken scratch | Searching on hands and knees for crack or cocaine |
| Chicle (Spanish) | Heroin |
| Chief | LSD; mescaline |
| Chiefing | To smoke marijuana |
| Chieva | Heroin |
| Chillum | An object used to smoke opium, hashish, and marijuana |
| China cat | High potency heroin |
| China girl | Fentanyl |
| China town | Fentanyl |
| China White | Heroin plus fentanyl; synthetic heroin |
| Chinese molasses | Opium |
| Chinese red | Heroin |
| Chinese tobacco | Opium |
| Chip | Heroin |
| Chipper | Occasional user; occasional heroin user; occasional Hispanic user |
| Chipping | Using drugs occasionally |
| Chippy | Cocaine |
| Chips | Tobacco or marijuana cigarettes laced with PCP |
| Chira | Marijuana |
| Chiva/chieva (Spanish) | Heroin |
| Choco-fan | Heroin |
| Chocolate | Marijuana; opium; amphetamine |
| Chocolate Chip Cookies | MDMA combined with heroin or methadone |
| Chocolate chips | LSD |
| Chocolate ecstasy | Crack made brown by adding chocolate milk during production |
| Chocolate rock | Crack smoked together with heroin |
| Chocolate Thai | Marijuana |
| Choe | Cocaine |
| Cholly | Cocaine |
| Chorals | Depressants |
| Christina | Amphetamine |
| Christmas bud | Marijuana |
| Christmas rolls | Depressants |
| Christmas tree | Marijuana; amphetamine; methamphetamine; depressant |
| Christmas tree meth | Green methamphetamine produced using Drano crystals |
| Chrome | Crystal methamphetamine |
| Chronic | Marijuana; marijuana mixed with crack |
| Chrystal methadrine | Methylenedioxymethamphetamine (MDMA) |
| Chucks | Hunger following withdrawal from heroin |
| Chunky | Marijuana |
| Churus | Marijuana |
| Cid | LSD |
| Cigamos | Combination of crack cocaine and tobacco |
| Cigarette paper | Packet of heroin |
| Cigarrode cristal | PCP |
| Cinnamon | Methamphetamine |
| Circles | Rohypnol |
| Citrol | High potency marijuana, from Nepal |
| CJ | PCP |
| Clam bake | Sitting inside a car or other small, enclosed space and smoking marijuana |
| Clarity | Methylenedioxymethamphetamine (MDMA) |
| Clear | Methamphetamine |
| Clear up | Stop drug use |
| Clicker | Crack mixed with PCP; marijuana dipped in formaldehyde and smoked |
| Clickums | A marijuana cigarette laced with PCP. |
| Cliffhanger | PCP |
| Climax | Crack; heroin; isobutyl nitrite; inhalants |
| Climb | Marijuana cigarette |
| Clips | Rows of vials heat-sealed together |
| Clocker | Entry level crack dealers who sell drugs 24 hours a day. |
| Clocking paper | Profits from selling drugs |
| Closet baser | User of crack who prefers anonymity |
| Cloud | Crack Cocaine |
| Cloud nine | Crack cocaine; methylenedioxymethamphetamine (MDMA) |
| Cluck | Crack smoker |
| Cluckers | Middlemen who facilitate the connection between buyers and sellers |
| Co-pilot | Amphetamine |
| Coasting | Under the influence of drugs |
| Coasts to coasts | Amphetamine |
| Coca | Cocaine |
| Cocaine blues | Depression after extended cocaine use |
| Cochornis | Marijuana |
| Cocktail | Combination of crack and marijuana; cigarette laced with cocaine or crack; partially smoked marijuana cigarette inserted in regular cigarette; to smoke cocaine in a cigarette |
| Coco rocks | Dark brown crack made by adding chocolate pudding during production |
| Coco snow | Benzocaine used as cutting agent for crack |
| Cocoa puff | To smoke cocaine and marijuana |
| Cocofan (Spanish) | Brown Tar Heroin |
| Coconut | Cocaine |
| Cod | Large amount of money |
| Coffee | LSD |
| Coke | Cocaine; Crack Cocaine |
| Coke bar | A bar where cocaine is openly used |
| Cola | Cocaine |
| Colas | Marijuana |
| Cold turkey | Sudden withdrawal from drugs |
| Coli | Marijuana |
| Coliflor tostao (Spanish) | Marijuana |
| Colombian | Marijuana |
| Colorado cocktail | Marijuana |
| Columbo | PCP |
| Columbus black | Marijuana |
| Combol | Cocaine |
| Come home | End a "trip" from LSD |
| Come up | A person who sells drugs for money; to take a small amount of money and increase to a large amount. |
| Comeback | Benzocaine and mannitol used to adulterate cocaine for conversion to crack |
| Comic book | Lysergic acig diethylamide (LSD) |
| Conductor | LSD |
| Connect | Purchase drugs; supplier of illegal drugs |
| Connie | Powder cocaine |
| Contact lens | LSD |
| Cook | Drug manufacturer; 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 |
| Cookies | Crack Cocaine |
| Cooking up | To process powdered cocaine into crack. |
| Cooler | Cigarette laced with a drug |
| Coolie | Cigarette laced with cocaine |
| Cop | Obtain drugs |
| Copping zones | Specific areas where buyers can purchase drugs |
| Coral | Depressant |
| Coriander seeds | Cash |
| Cork the air | To inhale cocaine |
| Corrine | Cocaine |
| Corrinne | Cocaine |
| Cosa (Spanish) | Marijuana |
| Cotics | Heroin |
| Coties | Codeine |
| Cotton | Currency; OxyContin |
| Cotton brothers | Cocaine, heroin and morphine |
| Cotton fever | Critically high temperature associated with accidentally injecting cotton fibers into blood stream |
| Courage pills | Heroin; depressants |
| Course note | Bill larger than $2 |
| Cozmo's | PCP |
| CR | Methamphetamine |
| Crack | Cocaine |
| Crack attack | Craving for crack |
| Crack back | Marijuana and crack |
| Crack bash | Combination of crack cocaine and marijuana |
| Crack cooler | Crack soaked in wine cooler |
| 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 |
| Cracker jack | Crack smoker |
| Cracker jacks | Crack smokers |
| Crackers | LSD; Talwin and ritalin combination is injected and produces an effect similar to the effect of heroin mixed with cocaine. |
| Crank | Crack Cocaine; heroin; amphetamine; methamphetamine; methcathinone |
| Cranking up | To inject a drug |
| Crankster | Someone who uses or manufatures methamphetamine |
| Crap | Low quality heroin |
| Crash | Sleep off effects of drugs |
| Crazy coke | PCP |
| Crazy Eddie | PCP |
| Crazy weed | Marijuana |
| Credit card | Crack stem |
| Crib | Crack Cocaine |
| Crimmie | Cigarette laced with crack |
| Crink | Methamphetamine |
| Cripple | Marijuana cigarette |
| Cris | Methamphetamine |
| Crisscross | Amphetamine |
| Crisscrossing | The practice of setting up a line of cocaine next to a line of heroin. The user places a straw in each nostril and snorts about half of each line. Then the straws are crossed and the remaining lines are snorted |
| Cristal (Spanish) | Methylenedioxymethamphetamine (MDMA) |
| Cristina (Spanish) | Methamphetamine |
| Cristy | Smokable methamphetamine |
| Croak | Cocaine mixed with methamphetamine; methamphetamine |
| Crop | Low quality heroin |
| Cross tops | Amphetamine |
| Crossles | Methamphetamine |
| Crossroads | Amphetamine |
| Crown crap | Heroin |
| Crumbs | Tiny pieces of crack |
| Crunch & Munch | Crack Cocaine |
| Crush and rush | Method of methamphetamine production in which starch is not filtered out of the ephedrine or pseudoephedrine tablets. |
| Cruz (Spanish) | Opium from Veracruz, Mexico |
| Crying weed | Marijuana |
| Cryppie | Marijuana |
| Crypto | Methamphetamine |
| Cryptonie | Marijuana |
| Crystal | Cocaine; amphetamine; methamphetamine;PCP |
| Crystal glass | Crystal shards of methamphetamine |
| Crystal joint | PCP |
| Crystal meth | Methamphetamine |
| Crystal methadrine | Amphetamine |
| Crystal T | PCP |
| Crystal tea | LSD |
| Cube | LSD; 1 ounce |
| Cubes | Marijuana tablets; crack cocaine |
| Culican | High potency marijuana from Mexico |
| Cupcakes | LSD |
| Cura (Spanish) | Heroin |
| Cushion | Vein into which a drug is injected |
| Cut | Adulterate drugs |
| Cut-deck | Heroin mixed with powdered milk |
| Cycline | PCP |
| Cyclones | PCP |
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Last Updated: April 6, 2005
