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STREET TERM | DEFINITION |
A-bomb | Marijuana cigarette with heroin or opium |
AIP | Heroin from Afghanistan, Iran, Pakistan |
Al Capone | Heroin |
Antifreeze | Heroin |
Aries | Heroin |
Atom bomb | Marijuana mixed with heroin |
Aunt Hazel | Heroin |
Back to back | Smoking crack after injecting heroin or heroin used after smoking crack |
Bad bundle | Inferior quality heroin; damaged heroin |
Bad seed | Marijuana combined with peyote; heroin |
Bag | Container for drugs; a package of drugs, usually marijuana or heroin; a person's favorite drug |
Ball | Crack cocaine; Mexican Black Tar heroin |
Balloon | Heroin supplier; a penny balloon that contains narcotics |
Ballot | Heroin |
Bars | Heroin mixed with alprazolam |
Bart Simpson | Heroin |
Batman | Cocaine; heroin |
Beast | Heroin plus LSD |
Belushi | Combination of cocaine and heroin |
Big bag | Heroin |
Big doodig | Heroin |
Big H | Heroin |
Big Harry | Heroin |
Bin laden | Heroin (after September 11) |
Bindle | Small packet of drug powder; heroin |
Bipping | Snorting heroin and cocaine, either separately or together |
Birdie powder | Cocaine; heroin |
Black eagle | Heroin |
Black pearl | Heroin |
Black stuff | Heroin; opium |
Black tar | Heroin |
Blanco (Spanish) | Heroin plus cocaine |
Blank | Container of nonnarcotic powder that is sold as heroin |
Blow | Cocaine; to inhale cocaine; to smoke marijuana; to inject heroin |
Blows | Heroin |
Blue bag | Heroin |
Blue star | Heroin |
Bomb | Crack; heroin; large marijuana cigarette; high potency heroin |
Bombido | Heroin; injectable amphetamine; depressants |
Bombita (Spanish) | Heroin plus amphetamine; depressants |
Bombs away | Heroin |
Bone | Marijuana; $50 piece of crack; high purity heroin |
Bonita (Spanish) | Heroin |
Boy | Cocaine; heroin |
Boy-girl | Heroin mixed with cocaine |
Bozo | Heroin |
Brain damage | Heroin |
Brea (Spanish) | Heroin |
Brick gum | Heroin |
Broja | Heroin |
Brown | Marijuana; heroin; methamphetamine |
Brown crystal | Heroin |
Brown rhine | Heroin |
Brown sugar | Heroin |
Brown tape | Heroin |
Bull dog | Heroin |
Bundle | Heroin |
Butu | Heroin |
Caballo (Spanish) | Heroin |
Caca | Heroin |
Calbo (Spanish) | Heroin |
Canade | Heroin/marijuana combination |
Capital H | Heroin |
Caps | Heroin; psilocybin/psilocin; crack; Gamma Hydroxybutyrate (GHB) |
Carga (Spanish) | Heroin |
Carne (Spanish) | Heroin |
Channel swimmer | One who injects heroin |
Chapopote (Spanish) | Heroin |
Charley | Heroin |
Chasing the dragon | Crack mixed with heroin |
Chasing the tiger | To smoke heroin |
Chatarra (Spanish) | Heroin |
Cheese | Heroin; mix of ground-up cold medicine and a small amount of heroin, also black tar heroin combined with diphenhydramine |
Chiba | Heroin |
Chicle (Spanish) | Heroin |
Chieva | Heroin |
China cat | High potency heroin |
China White | Heroin plus fentanyl; synthetic heroin |
Chinese red | Heroin |
Chip | Heroin |
Chipper | Occasional user; occasional heroin user; occasional Hispanic user |
Chiva/chieva (Spanish) | Heroin |
Choco-fan | Heroin |
Chocolate Chip Cookies | MDMA combined with heroin or methadone |
Chocolate rock | Crack smoked together with heroin |
Chucks | Hunger following withdrawal from heroin |
Cigarette paper | Packet of heroin |
Climax | Crack; heroin; isobutyl nitrite; inhalants |
Cocofan (Spanish) | Brown Tar Heroin |
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 |
Cotics | Heroin |
Cotton brothers | Cocaine, heroin and morphine |
Courage pills | Heroin; depressants |
Crank | Crack Cocaine; heroin; amphetamine; methamphetamine; methcathinone |
Crap | Low quality heroin |
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 |
Crop | Low quality heroin |
Crown crap | Heroin |
Cura (Spanish) | Heroin |
Cut-deck | Heroin mixed with powdered milk |
Dead on arrival | Heroin |
Dead president | Heroin |
Deck | 1 to 15 grams of heroin, also known as a bag; packet of drugs |
Deuce | Heroin; $2 worth of drugs |
Diesel | Heroin |
Dime's worth | Amount of heroin to cause death |
Dinosaurs | Populations of heroin users in their forties and fifties |
Dirt | Heroin |
DOA | Crack; heroin; PCP |
Dog food | Heroin |
Dogie | Heroin |
Doogie/doojee/dugie | Heroin |
Dooley | Heroin |
Doosey | Heroin |
Dope | Marijuana; heroin; any other drug |
Double breasted dealing | Dealing cocaine and heroin together |
Dr. Feelgood | Heroin |
Dragon rock | Mixture of heroin and crack |
Dreck | Heroin |
Duji | Heroin |
Dujra | Heroin |
Dujre | Heroin |
Dust | Marijuana mixed with various chemicals; cocaine; heroin; PCP |
Dusting | Adding PCP, heroin, or another drug to marijuana; Using inhalants |
Dynamite | Cocaine mixed with heroin |
Dyno | Heroin |
Dyno-pure | Heroin |
Eightball | Crack mixed with heroin |
Eighth | Heroin |
El diablito (Spanish) | Cocaine, marijuana, heroin and PCP |
El diablo (Spanish) | Cocaine, marijuana and heroin |
Estuffa | Heroin |
Ferry dust | Heroin |
Five-way | Combines snorting of heroin, cocaine, methamphetamine, ground up flunitrazepam pills, and drinking alcohol |
Flamethrowers | Cigarette laced with cocaine and heroin; heroin, cocaine and tobacco |
Flea powder | Low purity heroin |
Foil | Heroin |
Foo foo stuff | Heroin; cocaine |
Foolish powder | Cocaine; heroin |
Frisco special | Cocaine, heroin, and LSD |
Frisco speedball | Cocaine, heroin, and a dash of LSD |
Frontloading | The process of tranferring a drug solution from one syringe to another |
Furra | Heroin |
Galloping horse | Heroin |
Gallup | Heroin |
Gamot | Heroin |
Garbage | Inferior quality marijuana; low quality heroin |
Gato (Spanish) | Heroin |
George | Heroin |
George smack | Heroin |
Get off houses | Private places heroin users can purchase & use heroin for a fee |
Getting snotty | Using heroin |
Girl | Cocaine; Crack Cocaine; heroin |
Give wings | Inject someone or teach someone to inject heroin |
Glacines | Heroin |
Glass | Heroin; amphetamine; hypodermic needle; methamphetamine |
Goat | Heroin |
Gold | Marijuana; Crack Cocaine; heroin |
Golden girl | Heroin |
Golpe | Heroin |
Goma (Spanish) | Black tar heroin plus opium |
Good | PCP; heroin |
Good and plenty | Heroin |
Good H | Heroin |
Good Horse | Heroin |
Goofball | Cocaine mixed with heroin; depressants |
Gravy | Heroin; to inject a drug |
H | Heroin |
H & C | Heroin and cocaine |
H - bomb | Ecstasy (MDMA) mixed with heroin |
H Caps | Heroin |
Hache | Heroin |
Hairy | Heroin |
Half load | 15 bags (decks) of heroin |
Half piece | 1/2 ounce of heroin or cocaine |
Hard candy | Heroin |
Hard stuff | Heroin; opium |
Harry | Heroin |
Hayron | Heroin |
Hazel | Heroin |
He-she | Heroin mixed with cocaine |
Heaven | Cocaine; heroin |
Heaven dust | Cocaine; heroin |
Helen | Heroin |
Hell dust | Heroin |
Henry | Heroin |
Hera | Heroin |
Hero | Heroin |
Hero of the underworld | Heroin |
Heroina (Spanish) | Heroin |
Herone | Heroin |
Hessle | Heroin |
Him | Heroin |
Hitters | People who inject others who have hard to find veins in exchange for drugs |
Holy terror | Heroin |
Hombre (Spanish) | Heroin |
Homicide | Heroin cut with scopolamine or strychnine |
Hong-yen | Heroin in pill form |
Horning | To inhale cocaine; heroin |
Horse | Heroin |
Horsebite | Heroin |
Hospital heroin | Diluadid |
Hot dope | Heroin |
Hot heroin | Heroin poisoned to give to a police informant |
HRN | Heroin |
Hype | Heroin addict; an addict; methylenedioxymethamphetamine (MDMA) |
Isda | Heroin |
Jee gee | Heroin |
Jerry Springer | Heroin |
Jive | Marijuana; heroin; drugs |
Jive doo jee | Heroin |
Joharito | Heroin |
Jojee | Heroin |
Jolly pop | Casual user of heroin |
Jones | Heroin |
Joy | Heroin |
Joy flakes | Heroin |
Joy powder | Cocaine; heroin |
Junco | Heroin |
Junk | Cocaine; heroin |
Kabayo | Heroin |
Karachi | Heroin, phenobarbital, and methaqualone |
La Buena (Spanish) | Heroin |
La Chiva ("goat") | Heroin |
Lady | Cocaine; heroin |
LBJ | Heroin plus LSD plus PCP |
Lemonade | Heroin; poor quality drugs |
Little bomb | Heroin; amphetamine; depressants |
Little boy | Heroin |
Load | 25 bags of heroin |
Love boat | Marijuana dipped in formaldehyde; PCP; blunts mixed with marijuana and heroin; blunts mixed with marijuana and PCP |
Mac | Heroin |
Manteca (Spanish) | Heroin |
Matsakow | Heroin |
Mayo | Cocaine; heroin |
Meth speed ball | Methamphetamine combined with heroin |
Mexican brown | Marijuana; heroin |
Mexican horse | Heroin |
Mexican mud | Heroin |
Mojo | Cocaine; heroin |
Money talks | Heroin |
Monkey | Cigarette made from cocaine paste and tobacco; drug dependency; heroin |
Moonrock | Crack mixed with heroin |
Moonstone | When a dealer shaves a slice of methylenedioxymethamphetamine (MDMA) into a bag of heroin |
Morotgara | Heroin |
Mortal combat | High potency heroin |
Mud | Heroin plus opium |
Murder One | Heroin and cocaine |
Murotugora | Heroin |
Muzzle | Heroin |
Nanoo | Heroin |
New Jack Swing | Heroin and morphine |
Nice and easy | Heroin |
Nickel bag | $5 worth of drugs; heroin |
Nickel deck | Heroin |
Nod | Effects of heroin |
Noise | Heroin |
Nose | Cocaine; heroin |
Nose drops | Liquified heroin |
Number 3 | Cocaine; heroin |
Number 4 | Heroin |
Number 8 | Heroin |
Nurse | Heroin |
Ogoy | Heroin |
Oil | Heroin; PCP |
Old garbage | Heroin |
Old navy | Heroin |
Old Steve | Heroin |
On the ball | When a dealer shaves a slice of methylenedioxymethamphetamine (MDMA) into a bag of heroin |
One on one house | Where cocaine and heroin can be purchased |
One plus one sales | Selling cocaine and heroin together |
One way | LSD; heroin |
Orange line | Heroin |
P-dope | 20-30% pure heroin |
P-funk | Crack mixed with PCP; heroin |
Pack | Marijuana; heroin |
Pangonadalot | Heroin |
Paper | A dosage unit of heroin; one-tenth of a gram or less of the drug ice or methamphetamine |
Paper boy | Heroin peddler |
Parachute | Crack and PCP smoked; heroin; smokable crack and heroin mixture |
Parachute down | Use of MDMA after heroin |
Peg | Heroin |
Perfect High | Heroin |
Perlas (Spanish) | Street dealer (heroin) |
Pluto | Heroin |
Poison | Heroin; fentanyl |
Polo | Mixture of heroin and motion sickness drug |
Polvo (Spanish) | Heroin; PCP |
Poppy | Heroin |
Poro | Heroin plus PCP (phencyclidine) |
Powder | Cocaine HCL; heroin; amphetamine |
Predator | Heroin |
Primo | Crack; marijuana mixed with cocaine; crack and heroin; heroin, cocaine and tobacco |
Primos | Cigarette laced with cocaine and heroin |
Pulborn | Heroin |
Pure | Heroin |
Quill | Cocaine; heroin; methamphetamine |
Racehorse charlie | Cocaine; heroin |
Ragweed | Inferior quality marijuana; heroin |
Rambo | Heroin |
Rane | Cocaine; heroin |
Raw | Crack cocaine; high purity heroin |
Raw fusion | Heroin |
Raw hide | Heroin |
Ready rock | Cocaine; crack cocaine; heroin |
Red chicken | Heroin |
Red devil | Depressants; PCP; heroin |
Red eagle | Heroin |
Red rock | Heroin |
Red rock opium | Heroin, barbital, strychnine, and caffeine |
Red rum | Heroin, barbital, strychnine, and caffeine |
Red stuff | Heroin, barbital, strychnine, and caffeine |
Reindeer dust | Herion |
Rhine | Heroin |
Rider | 5 kilograms of heroin sometimes provided at no cost per 100 kilograms of cocaine imported from Colombia |
Rush hour | Heroin |
Sack | Heroin |
Salt | Heroin |
Sandwich | Two layers of cocaine with a layer of heroin in the middle |
Scag | Heroin |
Scat | Heroin |
Scate | Heroin |
Scott | Heroin |
Scramble | Crack cocaine; low purity, adulterated heroin plus crack cocaine |
Second to none | Heroin |
Serial speedballing | Sequencing cocaine, cough syrup, and heroin over a 1-2 day period |
Sh*t | Heroin |
Shmeck/schmeek | Heroin |
Shoot | Heroin |
Silk | Heroin |
Ska | Heroin |
Skag | Heroin |
Skid | Heroin |
Skunk | Marijuana; heroin |
Sleeper | Heroin; depressants |
Sleeper and red devil | Herion plus a depressant |
Slime | Heroin |
Smack | Heroin |
Smoke | Marijuana; Crack Cocaine; heroin and crack |
Smoking gun | Heroin and cocaine |
Sniffer bag | $5 bag of heroin intended for inhalation |
Snotty | Heroin |
Snow | Cocaine; heroin; amphetamine |
Snowball | Cocaine and heroin |
Speedball | Cocaine mixed with heroin; crack and heroin smoked together; methylphenidate (ritalin) mixed with heroin; amphetamine |
Speedballing | To shoot up or smoke a mixture of cocaine and heroin; ecstasy mixed with ketamine; the simultaneous use of a stimulant with a depressant |
Spider | Heroin |
Spider blue | Heroin |
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 |
Stacks | Methylenedioxymethamphetamine (MDMA) adulterated with heroin or crack |
Stuff | Heroin |
Sugar | Cocaine; Crack cocaine; heroin; LSD |
Sweet dreams | Heroin |
Sweet Jesus | Heroin |
Sweet stuff | Cocaine; heroin |
T.N.T. | Heroin; fentanyl |
Tar | Crack and heroin smoked together; heroin; opium |
Taste | Heroin; small sample of drugs |
Tecata (Spanish) | Heroin |
Tecatos | Hispanic heroin addict |
Thanie | Heroin |
The beast | Heroin |
The bomb | Heroin; fentanyl |
The five way | Heroin plus cocaine plus methamphetamine plus Rohypnol (flunitrazepam) plus alcohol |
The witch | Heroin |
Thing | Cocaine; Crack Cocaine; heroin; main drug interest at the momement. |
Thunder | Heroin |
Tigre (Spanish) | Heroin |
Tigre Blanco (Spanish) | Heroin |
Tigre del Norte (Spanish) | Heroin |
Tits | Black tar heroin |
TNT | Heroin plus fentanyl |
Tongs | Heroin |
Tootsie roll | Heroin |
Top drool | Heroin |
Train | Heroin |
Twin towers | Heroin (after September 11) |
Twists | Small plastic bags of heroin secured with a twist tie |
Vidrio (Spanish) | Heroin |
Whack | Crack Cocaine; heroin and PCP; Crack/PCP mixture or marijuana laced with insecticides |
White | Heroin; amphetamine |
White boy | Heroin; powder cocaine |
White dragon | Powder cocaine; heroin |
White girl | Cocaine; heroin |
White horse | Cocaine; heroin |
White junk | Heroin |
White lady | Cocaine; heroin |
White nurse | Heroin |
White stuff | Heroin |
Whiz bang | Cocaine; Heroin and cocaine |
Wicked | A potent brand of heroin |
Wings | Cocaine; heroin |
Witch | Cocaine; heroin |
Witch hazel | Heroin |
Woola blunt | Marijuana and heroin combination |
Woolie | Marijuana and heroin combination; marijuana and crack cocaine combination |
WTC | Heroin (after September 11) |
Z | 1 ounce of heroin |
Zoquete (Spanish) | Heroin |
Last Updated: April 6, 2005