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Street Terms: Drugs and the Drug TradeDrug Type: Heroin |
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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 |
| Keel | A narcotic, possibly heroin, laced with another substance, likely fentanyl |
| Kill | A narcotic, possibly heroin, laced with another substance, likely fentanyl |
| 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
