Friday, April 25, 2008

Drug Slang

* A Bean - MDMA
* Abe - $5 worth of drugs
* Abe's cabe - $5 bill
* Abolic - veterinary steroid
* Aborts - absolut vodka and port, mixed together
* Acapulco gold - marijuana from S.W.Mexico
* Acapulco red - marijuana
* Ace - marijuana; PCP
* Acid - LSD
* Acid head - LSD user
* AD - PCP
* Adam - MDMA
* African black - marijuana
* African bush - marijuana
* African woodbine - marijuana cigarette
* Agonies - withdrawal symptoms
* Ah-pen-yen - opium
* Aimies - amphetamine; amyl nitrite
* AIP - heroin from Afghanistan, Iran, and Pakistan
* Air blast - inhalant
* Airhead - marijuana user
* Airplane - marijuana
* Alice - LSD or mushrooms
* Alice B. Toklas - marijuana brownie
* All lit up - under the influence of drugs
* All star - user of multiple drugs
* All-American drug - cocaine
* Alamout black hash - hash, belladona (small amount)
* Alien sex fiend - very strong powdered pcp with heroin
* Alpha-ET - alpha-ethyltyptamine
* Ames - amyl nitrite
* Amidone - methadone
* Amoeba - PCP
* Amp - amphetamine
* Amp joint - marijuana cigarette laced with some form of narcotic
* Amped-out - fatigue after using amphetamines
* Amped & queer - to be high on coke or crystal
* Amping - accelerated heartbeat
* AMT - dimethyltryptamine
* Amys - amyl nitrate
* Anadrol - oral steroid
* Anatrofin - injectable steroid
* Anavar - oral steroid
* Angel - PCP
* Angel dust - PCP
* Angel hair - PCP
* Angel mist - PCP
* Angel Poke - PCP
* Angels in a sky - LSD
* Angel Tears - liquid LSD
* Angie - cocaine
* Angola - marijuana
* Animal - LSD
* Animal trank - PCP
* Animal tranquilizer - PCP
* Antifreeze - heroin
* Anything going on? - do you have drugs to sell?
* Apache - fentanyl
* Apple jacks - crack
* Aries - heroin
* Aroma of men - isobutyl nitrite
* Artillery - equipment for injecting drugs
* Ashes - marijuana
* Ate up - someone that's always wasted
* Atom bomb - marijuana and heroin
* Atshitshi - marijuana
* Aunt Hazel - heroin
* Aunt Mary - marijuana
* Aunt Nora - cocaine
* Aunti - opium
* Aunti Emma - opium
* Aurora borealis - PCP

* B - amount of marijuana to fill a matchbox
* B-40 - cigar laced with marijuana and dipped in malt liquor
* B.J.'s - crack
* Babe - drug used for detoxification
* Baby - marijuana
* Baby bhang - marijuana
* Baby habit - occasional use of drugs
* Babysit - guide someone through first drug experience
* Baby slits - MDMA
* Baby T - crack
* Backbreakers - LSD and strychnine
* Back door - residue left in a pipe
* Backjack - injecting opium
* Back to back - smoking crack after injecting heroin or heroin used after smoking crack
* Backtrack - allow blood to flow back into a needle during injection
* Backup - prepare vein for injection
* Backwards - depressant
* Bad bundle - inferior-quality heroin
* Bad - crack
* Bad go - bad reaction to a drug
* Bad seed - peyote; heroin; marijuana
* Bad trip - bad acid trip
* Bag - container for drugs
* Bagboy - someone who sells dope for someone else
* Bag bride - crack-smoking prostitute
* Bag man - person who transports money
* Bagging - using inhalant
* Bale - marijuana
* Ball - crack
* Baller - one who sells a variety of drugs
* Balling - vaginally implanted cocaine
* Balloon - heroin supplier
* Ballot - heroin
* Bam - depressant; amphetamine
* Bambalacha - marijuana
* Bambs - depressant
* Bammer - term given to weak marijuana
* Bang - to inject a drug; inhalant
* Bank bandit pills - depressant
* Bar - marijuana
* Barb - depressant
* Barbara Jean - pot
* Barbies - depressant
* Barbs - cocaine
* Barrels - LSD
* Bart Simpsons - LSD
* Base - cocaine; crack
* Baseball - crack
* Base crazies - searching on hands and knees for crack
* Base head - person who bases
* Bash - marijuana
* Basuco - cocaine; coca paste residue sprinkled on marijuana or regular cigarette
* Bat - marijuana pipe, easily disguised as a cigarette
* Bathtub speed - methcathinone
* Batt - IV needle
* Battery acid - LSD
* Batu - smokable methamphetamine
* Bazooka - cocaine; crack
* Bazulco - cocaine
* BC Budd - very high-grade marijuana from British Columbia
* Beam me up Scottie - crack dipped in PCP
* Beamer - crack user
* Beaners - drugys
* Beans - amphetamine; depressant; mescaline
* Beast - LSD
* Beat artist - person selling bogus drugs
* Beat vials - vials containing sham crack to cheat buyers
* Beautiful boulders - crack
* Bebe - crack
* Bedbugs - fellow addicts
* Bee - bong hit
* Beemers - crack
* Behind the scale - to weigh and sell cocaine
* Beiging - chemicals altering cocaine to make it appear a higher purity
* Belladonna - belladonna
* Belt - effects of drugs
* Belushi - cocaine and heroin
* Belyando spruce - marijuana
* Bender - drug party
* Bennie - amphetamine
* Benz - amphetamine
* Bernice - cocaine
* Bernie - cocaine
* Bernie's flakes - cocaine
* Bernie's gold dust - cocaine
* Bhang - marijuana, Indian term
* Big bag - heroin
* Big bloke - cocaine
* Big C - cocaine
* Big 8 - 1/8 kilogram of crack
* Big D - LSD
* Big H - heroin
* Big Harry - heroin
* Big flake - cocaine
* Big man - drug supplier
* Big O - opium
* Big rush - cocaine
* Bill Blass - crack
* Billie hoke - cocaine
* Bindle - small packet of drug powder; heroin
* Bing - enough of a drug for one injection
* Bingers - crack addicts
* Binger - bong hit
* Bingo - to inject a drug
* Bings - crack
* Binky - marijuana cigarette
* Birdie powder - heroin; cocaine
* Biscuit - 50 rocks of crack
* Bite one's lips - to smoke marijuana
* Biz - bag or portion of drugs
* Black - opium; marijuana
* Black acid - LSD; LSD and PCP
* Black and white - amphetamine
* Black bart - marijuana
* Black beauties - depressant; amphetamine
* Black birds - amphetamine
* Black bombers - amphetamine
* Black Button - dried button of peyote
* Black ganga - marijuana resin
* Black gold - high-potency marijuana
* Black gungi - marijuana from India
* Black gunion - marijuana
* Black hash - opium and hashish
* Black maria - highly potent marijuana
* Black mo/black moat - highly potent marijuana
* Black mollies - amphetamine
* Black mote - marijuana mixed with honey
* Black pearl - heroin
* Black pill - opium pill
* Black powder - black hash ground into powder
* Black rock - crack
* Black Russian - hashish mixed with opium
* Black star - LSD
* Black stuff - heroin
* Black sunshine - LSD
* Black tabs - LSD
* Black tar - heroin
* Black whack - PCP
* Blacks - amphetamine
* Blanco - heroin
* Blanket - marijuana cigarette
* Blanks - low-quality drugs
* Blast - to smoke marijuana; to smoke crack
* Blast a joint - to smoke marijuana
* Blast a roach - to smoke marijuana
* Blast a stick - to smoke marijuana
* Blasted - under the influence of drugs
* Blind squid - ketamine, belladona, LSD
* Blitzed - under the influence of drugs
* Blizzard - white cloud in a pipe used to smoke cocaine
* Block - marijuana
* Block busters - depressant
* Blonde - marijuana
* Blotter - LSD; cocaine
* Blotter acid - LSD
* Blotter cube - LSD
* Blow - cocaine; to inhale cocaine; to smoke marijuana
* Blow a fix - injection misses the vein and is wasted in the skin
* blow a shot - injection misses the vein and is wasted in the skin
* blow the vein - injection misses the vein and is wasted in the skin
* Blow a stick - to smoke marijuana
* Blow blue - to inhale cocaine
* Blowcaine - crack diluted with cocaine
* Blow coke - to inhale cocaine
* Blow one's roof - to smoke marijuana
* Blow smoke - to inhale cocaine
* Blowing smoke - marijuana
* Blowout - crackBlow up and street value
* Blue - depressant; crack
* Blue acid - LSD
* Blue angels - depressant
* Blue barrels - LSD
* Blue birds - depressant
* Blue boy - amphetamine
* Blue bullets - depressant
* Blue caps - mescaline
* Blue chairs - LSD
* Blue cheers - LSD
* Blue de hue - marijuana from Vietnam
* Blue devil - depressant
* Blue dolls - depressant
* Blue fly - NYC LSD
* Blue heaven - LSD
* Blue heavens - depressant
* Blud madman - PCP
* Blue microdot - LSD
* Blue mist - LSD
* Blue moons - LSD
* Blue sage - marijuana
* Blue sky blond - high-potency marijuana from Columbia
* Blue Star - LSD/PCP
* Blue tips - depressant
* Blue vials - LSD
* Blunt - marijuana inside a cigar; marijuana and cocaine or a fat joint inside a cigar
* Blunted out - smoked many blunts of maraijuana
* Bo-bo - marijuana
* Boat - PCP
* Bob - marijuana cigarette
* Bobo - crack
* Bobo bush - marijuana
* Body packer - person who ingests crack or cocaine to transport it
* Body stuffer - person who ingests crack vials to avoid prosecution
* Bogart a joint - salivate on a marijuana cigarette; refuse to share
* Bohd - marijuana; PCP
* Bolasterone - injectable steroid
* Bolivian marching powder- cocaine
* Bolo - crack
* Bolt - isobutyl nitrite
* Bomb - crack; heroin; large marijuana cigarette; high-potency heroin
* Bomb squad - crack-selling crew
* Bomber - marijuana cigarette
* Bombido - injectable amphetamine; heroin; depressant
* Bombita - amphetamine; heroin; depressant
* Bombs away - heroin
* Bone - marijuana; $50 piece of crack
* Bonecrusher - crack
* Bones - crack
* Bong - pipe used to smoke marijuana
* Bonita - heroin
* Boo - marijuana
* Booger - cocaine (in the Florida Keys)
* Boogered up - high on cocaine (in the Florida Keys)
* Boom - marijuana
* Boomers - psilocybin/psilocin
* Boost - to inject a drug; to steal
* Boost and shoot - steal to support a habit
* Booster - to inhale cocaine
* Boot - to inject a drug
* Boot the gong - to smoke marijuana
* Booted - under the influence of drugs
* Booty juice - MDMA dissolved in liquid
* Boppers - amyl nitrite
* Botray - crack
* Bottles - crack vials; amphetamine
* Boubou - crack
* Boulder - crack; $20 worth of crack
* Boulya - crack
* Bouncing powder - cocaine
* Bowl - between 1/32 and 1/16 ounce of marijuana
* Boxed - in jail
* Boy - heroin
* Bozo - heroin
* Brain ticklers - amphetamine
* Breakdowns - $40 crack rock sold for $20
* Breakfast of champions - crack
* Break night - staying up all night until day break
* Brewery - place where drugs are made
* Brick - 1 kilogram of marijuana; crack
* Brick gum - heroin
* Bridge up or bring up - ready a vein for injection
* Britton - peyote
* Broccoli - marijuana
* Broker - go-between in a drug deal
* Brome, Bromage - Dextromethorphane Hydrobromide (active ingredient for Robotussin DM) popular in clinical/powder form in some cities as a street drug.
* Brown - heroin; marijuana
* Brown bombers - LSD
* Brown crystal - heroin
* Brown dots - LSD
* Brown rhine - heroin
* Brown sugar - heroin
* Brown weed - marijuana mixed with cocaine
* Brownies - amphetamine
* Browns - amphetamine Bubble gum
* Buck - shoot someone in the head
* Bud - marijuana
* Buda - a high-grade marijuana joint filled with crack
* Budda - marijuana
* Buffer - crack smoker; a woman who exchanges oral sex for crack
* Buger sugar - powdered cocaine
* Bugged - annoyed; to be covered with sores and abscesses from repeated use of unsterile needles
* Bull - narcotics agent or police officer
* Bullet - isobutyl nitrite
* Bullet bolt - inhalant
* Bullia capital - crack
* Bullion - crack
* Bullyon - marijuana
* Bumblebees - amphetamine
* Bummer trip - unsettling and threatening experience from PCP intoxication
* Bump - crack; fake crack; boost a high; small dose of crystal meth
* Bundle - heroin
* Bunk - fake cocaine
* Burese - cocaine
* Burning logs - smoking a joint
* Burn one - to smoke marijuana
* Burn the main line - to inject a drug
* Burned - purchase fake drugs
* Burned out - collapse of veins from repeated injections; permanent impairment from drug abuse
* Burnese
* Burnie - marijuana
* Burnout - heavy abuser of drugs
* Burnt - smoked to much weed
* Bush - cocaine; marijuana
* Businessman's LSD - dimethyltryptamine
* Businessman's trip - dimethyltryptamine
* Businessman's special - dimethyltryptamine
* Busted - arrested
* Busters - depressant
* Busy bee - PCP
* Butt naked - PCP
* Butter - marijuana; crack
* Butter flower - marijuana
* Buttons - mescaline
* Butu - heroin
* Buzz - under the influence of drugs
* Buzz bomb - nitrous oxide

* C - cocaine
* C joint - place where cocaine is sold
* C & M - cocaine and morphine
* C-dust - cocaine
* C-game - cocaine
* Caballo - heroin
* Cabello - cocaine
* Caca - heroin
* Cacti Joint - a joint of dried and ground up peyote
* Cactus - mescaline
* Cactus buttons - mescaline
* Cactus head - mescaline
* Cad/Cadillac - 1 ounce
* Cadillac - PCP
* Cadillac express - methcathinone
* Cakes - round discs of crack
* Caine - cocaine; crack
* California cornflakes - cocaine
* California sunshine - LSD
* Cam trip - high-potency marijuana
* Cambodian red/Cam red - marijuana from Cambodia
* Came - cocaine
* Can - marijuana; 1 ounce
* Canadian black - marijuana
* Canamo - marijuana
* Canappa - marijuana
* Cancelled stick - marijuana cigarette
* Candy - cocaine; crack; depressant; amphetamine
* Candy C - cocaine
* Candy flip - 1 hit xtc per three hit(s) lsd
* Cannabinol - PCP
* Cannabis indica - marijuana that is very strong and causes halluciations
* Cannabis sativa - marijuana that is milder than indica and doesn't cause hallucinations
* Cannabis tea - marijuana
* Cannon - huge joint
* Canoe - when a joint gets a hole in the side or looks like a canoe.
* Cap - crack; LSD
* Caps - crack
* Cap up - transfer bulk form drugs to capsules
* Capital H - heroin
* Caps - heroin; psilocybin/psilocin
* Carburetor - crack stem attachment
* Carga - heroin
* Carmabis - marijuana
* Carne - heroin
* Carnie - cocaine
* Carpet patrol - crack smokers searching the floor for crack
* Carrie - cocaine
* Carrie Nation - cocaine
* Cartucho - package of marijuana cigarettes
* Cartwheels - amphetamine
* Cashed - bowl is finished/empty
* Casper the ghost - crack
* Cat - methcathinone
* Cat valium - ketamine
* Catnip - marijuana cigarette
* Cattle rustler - person who steals steaks and other meat from the supermarkets to trade for drugs at half value
* Caviar - crack
* Cavite all star - marijuana
* Cereal - marijuana (being smoked in a bowl)
* Cecil - cocaine
* Cess - marijuana
* Chalk - methamphetamine; amphetamine
* Chalked up - under the influence of cocaine
* Chalking - chemically altering the color of cocaine so it looks white
* Chamber - pipe used for marijuana
* Chandoo/chandu - opium
* Channel - vein into which a drug is injected
* Channel swimmer - one who injects heroin
* Charas - marijuana from India
* Charge - marijuana
* Charged up - under the influence of drugs
* Charley - heroin
* Charlie - cocaine
* Chase - to smoke cocaine; to smoke marijuana
* Chaser - compulsive crack user
* Chasing the dragon - crack and heroin
* Chasing the tiger - to smoke heroin
* Chaze - to christen a new bowl or pipe
* Cheap basing - crack
* Check - personal supply of drugs
* Cheeba - marijuana
* Cheeo - marijuana
* Chemical - crack
* Chestbonz - the one who takes the biggest bong hit
* Chewies - crack
* Chewies - blunt with powdered cocaine inside
* Chiba chiba - high-potency marijuana from Columbia
* Chicago black - marijuana, term from Chicago
* Chicago green - marijuana
* Chicken powder - amphetamine
* Chicken scratch - searching on hands and knees for crack
* Chicle - heroin
* Chief - LSD; mescaline
* Chieva - heroin
* Chillie Willies - snorting vodka or gin out of a bottle cap
* Chillun - pipe used to smoke hashish or
* China - opium
* China cat - high-potency heroin
* China girl - fentanyl
* China town - fentanyl
* China White - fentanyl
* Chinese dragons - LSD
* Chinese eyed - when the eyes become slanted from the influence of marijuana
* Chinese molasses - opium
* Chinese red - heroin
* Chinese tobacco - opium
* Chip - heroin
* Chipper - occasional Hispanic user
* Chipping - using drugs occasionally
* Chippie - marijuana
* Chippy - cocaine
* Chira - marijuana
* Chocolate - opium; amphetamine
* Chocolate chips - MDMA
* Chocolate ecstasy - crack made brown by adding chocolate milk powder during processing
* Chocolate rocket - crack made brown by adding chocolate milk powder during processing
* Chocolate Thi - marijuana
* Choker - large or powerful hit of crack cocaine
* Cholly - cocaine
* Chorals - depressant
* Christina - amphetamine
* Christine - crystal methamphetamine
* Christmas rolls - depressant
* Christmas tree - marijuana; depressant; amphetamine
* Chronic - strong weed
* Chronic - marijuana; marijuana mixed with crack
* Church - LSD paper with cross on it
* Chucks - hunger following withdrawal from heroin
* Chunks - large broken pieces of crack cocaine
* Churus - marijuana
* Cid - LSD
* Cigarette paper - packet of heroin
* Cigarrode cristal - PCP
* Citrol - high-potency marijuana, from Nepal
* CJ - PCP
* Clarity - MDMA
* Clear up - stop drug use
* Clicker - crack and PCP
* Cliffhanger - PCP
* Climax - crack; isobutyl nitrite; heroin
* Climb - marijuana cigarette
* Clips - rows of vials heat-sealed together
* Clocking paper - profits from selling drugs
* Closet baser - user of crack who prefers anonymity
* Cloud - crack or huge hit from ice pipe
* Cloud nine - crack
* Cluck - crack smoker
* 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 - cigarette laced with cocaine or crack; partially smoked marijuana cigarette inserted in regular cigarette
* Cocoa puff - to smoke cocaine and marijuana
* Coconut - cocaine
* Coco rocks - dark brown crack made by adding chocolate pudding during production
* Coco snow - benzocaine used as cutting-agent for crack
* Cod - large amount of money
* Coffee - LSD
* Coke - cocaine; crack
* Coke bar - bar where cocaine is openly used
* Cola - cocaine
* Cold turkey - sudden withdrawal from drugs
* Coli - marijuana
* Coliflor tostao - marijuana
* Colorado - cocaine
* Colorado cocktail - marijuana
* Columbian - marijuana
* Columbo - PCP
* Columbus black - marijuana
* Comeback - benzocaine and mannitol used to adulterate cocaine for conversion to crack
* Come home - end a "trip" from LSD
* Conductor - LSD
* Connect - purchase drugs; supplier of illegal drugs
* Contact lens - LSD
* 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
* Cookies - crack
* Cool - someone who uses drugs
* Coolie - cigarette laced with cocaine
* Cooler - cigarette laced with a drug
* Cop - obtain drugs
* Copping zones - specific areas where buyers can purchase drugs
* Coral - depressant
* Coriander seeds - cash
* Cork the air - to inhale cocaine
* Corn-stalker - marijuana cigarette rolled in the shuck of a corn cob sealed with honey
* Corrinne - cocaine
* Cosa - marijuana
* Cotics - heroin
* Cotton - currency
* Cotton brothers - cocaine, heroin and morphine
* Courage pills - heroin; depressant
* Course note - bill larger than $2
* Cozmo's - PCP
* Crack - cocaine
* Crack attack - craving for crack
* Crack back - crack and marijuana
* Crack cooler - crack soaked in wine cooler
* Cracker jacks - crack smokers
* Crackers - LSD
* Crack gallery - place where crack is bought and sold
* Crack Head - someone who does crack cocaine
* Crack spot - area where people can purchase crack
* Crack Star - someone who does crack cocaine
* Crack Weed - marijuana laced with crack
* Crank - methamphetamine; amphetamine; methcathinone
* Crankster - someone on crank
* Cranking up - to inject a drug
* Crap/crop - low-quality heroin
* Crash - sleep off effects of drugs
* Crazy coke - PCP
* Crazy Eddie - PCP
* Crazy weed - marijuana
* Credit card - crack stem
* Creeperbud - marijuana that creeps up on you
* Crib - crack
* Crill - a joint laced with cocaine
* Crimmie - cigarette laced with crack
* Crink - methamphetamine
* Crip - meth
* Cripple - marijuana cigarette
* Cris - methamphetamine
* Crisco - crystal methamphetamine
* Crisscross - amphetamine
* Crissy - crystal meth
* Cristina - methamphetamine
* Cristy - smokable methamphetamine
* Croak - crack and methamphetamine
* Cross tops - amphetamine
* Crossroads - amphetamine
* Crown crap - heroin
* Crumbs - tiny pieces of crack
* Crumbsnatcher - a junkie who steals tiny pieces of crack
* Crunch & Munch - crack
* Crusty treats - cocaine
* Cruz - opium from Veracruz, Mexico
* Crying weed - marijuana
* Crypto - methamphetamine
* Crystal - methamphetamine; PCP; amphetamine; cocaine
* Crystal joint - PCP
* Crystal meth - methamphetamine
* Crystal pop - cocaine and pcp
* Cystal T - PCP
* Crystal tea - LSD
* Cube - 1 ounce; LSD
* Cubes - marijuana tablets
* Culican - high-potency marijuana from Mexico
* Cupcakes - LSD
* Cura - heroin
* Cushion - vein into which a drug is injected
* Cut - adulterate drugs
* Cut-deck - heroin mixed with powdered milk
* Cycline - PCP
* Cyclones - PCP

* D - LSD, PCP
* Dabble - use drugs occasionally
* Daddy - marijuana joint
* Dagga - marijuana
* Dama blanca - cocaine
* Dance fever - fentanyl
* Dank - marijuana or pot
* Dawamesk - marijuana
* Dead on arrival - heroin
* Dealer - one who sells drugs.
* Deca-duabolin - injectable steroid
* Deccadence - MDMA
* Deck - 1 to 15 grams of heroin, also known as a bag; packet of drugs
* Deeda - LSD
* Delatestryl - injectable steroid
* Demo - crack stem; a sample-size quantity of crack
* Demolish - crack
* Dental Floss - LSD
* Dep-testosterone - injectable steroid
* DET - dimethyltryptamine
* Detroit pink - PCP
* Deuce - $2 worth of drugs; heroin
* Devil's dandruff - crack
* Devil's dick - crack pipe
* Devil's dust
* Devilsmoke - crack
* Dew - marijuana
* Dews - $10 worth of drugs
* Dexies - amphetamine
* Diablo - LSD paper with a devil on it
* Diambista - marijuana
* Dianabol - veterinary steroid
* Diet pills - amphetamine
* Diesel - heroin
* Digie - refers to scales used to weigh drugs
* Diggidy - good herb
* Dihydrolone - injectable steroid
* Dimba - marijuana from West Africa
* Dime - crack; $10 worth of crack
* Dime - 1/16 ounce of marijuana
* Dime bag - $10 worth of drugs
* Dime's worth - amount of heroin to cause death
* Dinosaurs - LSD
* Ding - marijuana
* Dinkie dow - marijuana
* Dip - crack
* Dipper - PCP
* Dipping out - crack runners taking a portion of crack from vials
* Dirge - PCP
* Dirt - heroin
* Dirt grass - inferior-quality marijuana
* Dirty basing - crack
* Disco biscuits - depressant
* Disease - drug of choice
* Ditch - marijuana
* Ditch weed - marijuana, inferior quality, Mexican
* Divider - sharing a joint with someone
* Dizz - marijuana
* Djamba - marijuana
* D.L. spot - safe place to buy and use drugs
* DMT - Dimethyltryptamine
* Do a joint - to smoke marijuana
* Do a line - to inhale cocaine
* Do it Jack - PCP
* DOA - PCP; crack
* Doctor - MDMA
* Dog - good friend
* Dog food - heroin
* Dogie - heroin
* Doja - strong marijuana
* Dollar - $100 worth of drugs
* Dolls - depressant
* Domes - LSD
* Domestic - locally grown marijuana
* Domex - PCP and MDMA
* Dominoes - amphetamine
* Don jem - marijuana
* Dona Juana - marijuana
* Dona Juanita - marijuana
* Doobie - marijuana
* Doobie/dubbe/duby - marijuana
* Doogie/doojee/dugie - heroin
* Dooley - heroin
* Dope - heroin; marijuana; any other drug
* Dope fiend - crack or marijuana addict
* Dope smoke - to smoke marijuana
* Dopium - opium
* Doradilla - marijuana
* Dose or Doses - LSD
* Dots - LSD or mescaline
* Doub - $20 rock of crack
* Double bubble - cocaine
* Double cross - amphetamine
* Double dome - LSD
* Double rock - crack diluted with procaine
* Double trouble - depressant
* Double ups - a $20 rock that can be broken into two $20 rocks
* Double yoke - crack
* Dove - $35 piece of crack
* Dover's powder - opium
* Downer - depressant
* Downie - depressant
* Downtown - heroin
* Dr. Frankenstein (or 'Franky' for short) - person who sells prescription drugs
* Draf weed - marijuana
* Drag weed - marijuana
* Draw up - to inject a drug
* Dream - cocaine
* Dream gum - opium
* Dream stick - opium
* Dreamer - morphine
* Dreams - opium
* Dreck - heroin
* Drink - PCP
* Dro - strong weed
* Dropper - to inject a drug
* Drowsy high - depressant
* Drug Deal - the exchange of money for drugs
* Dry high - marijuana
* DT - heroin
* Dub - $20 dollar's worth
* Dub Sack - $20 worth of drugs(weed)
* Duct - cocaine
* Due - residue of oils trapped in a pipe after smoking base
* Dugout - pipe used for marijuana
* Duji - heroin
* Dummy dust - PCP
* Durabolin - injectable steroid
* Durog - marijuana
* Duros - marijuana
* Dust - heroin; cocaine; PCP; marijuana mixed with various chemicals
* Dust joint - PCP
* Dust of angels - PCP
* Dusted - high on PCP
* Dusted parsley - PCP
* Dusting - adding PCP, heroin, or another drug to marijuana
* Dymethzine - injectable steroid
* Dynamite - heroin and cocaine
* Dyno - heroin
* Dyno-pure - heroin

* E - MDMA
* Earth - marijuana cigarette
* Easing powder - opium
* Eastside player - crack
* Easy score - obtaining drugs easily
* Eat - to take acid or mushrooms
* Eater - someone who eats marijuana
* Eating - taking a drug orally
* Ebenieghber - hash
* Ecstasy - MDMA
* Egg - crack
* Eight ball - 1/8 ounce of drugs
* Eightball - crack and heroin
* Eighth - heroin or marijuana
* Elaine - ecstasy
* El Cid - LSD
* El diablito - marijuana, cocaine, heroin and PCP
* El diablo - marijuana, cocaine and heroin
* Electric Kool Aid - LSD
* El Gato Diablo - crystal methamphetamine
* Elle Momo - marijuana laced with PCP
* Elephant - PCP
* Elephant tranquilizer - PCP
* Ellis Day - LSD
* Embalming fluid - PCP
* Emergency gun - instrument used to inject other than syringe
* Emsel - morphine
* Endo - marijuana
* Energizer - PCP
* Enoltestovis - injectable steroid
* Ephedrone - methcathinone
* Equipose - veterinary steroid
* Erth - PCP
* Esra - marijuana
* Essence - MDMA
* Estuffa - heroin
* ET - alpha-ethyltyptamine
* Euphoria - MDMA, mescaline, and crystal meth
* Eve - MDEA
* Explorers club - group of LSD users
* Eye opener - crack; amphetamine
* Eyeball poppers - crack

* Fachiva - heroin
* Factory - place where drugs are packaged, diluted, or manufactured
* Fake STP - PCP
* Fall - arrested
* Fallbrook redhair - marijuana, term from Fallbrook, CA
* Famous dimes - crack
* Fantasia - dimethyltryptamine
* Fat bags - crack
* Fat Pappy - fat joint or blunt
* Fatty - marijuana cigarette
* Feed bag - container for marijuana
* feeling beautiful baby - really high and happy
* Ferry dust - heroin
* Fi-do-nie - opium
* Fields - LSD
* Fiend - someone who smokes marijuana alone
* Fifteen cents - $15 worth of drugs
* Fifty-one - crack
* Finajet/finaject - veterinary steroid
* Fine stuff - marijuana
* Finger - marijuana cigarette
* Fir - marijuana
* Fire - to inject a drug; crack and methamphetamine
* Fire it up - to smoke marijuana
* First line - morphine
* Fish scales - crack
* Five cent bag - $5 worth of drugs
* Five C note - $500 bill
* Five dollar bag - $50 worth of drugs
* Fives - amphetamine
* Fix - to inject a drug
* Fizzies - methadone
* Flag - appearance of blood in the vein
* Flake - cocaine
* Flakes - PCP
* Flame cooking - smoking cocaine base by putting the pipe over a stove flame
* Flamethrowers - cigarette laced with cocaine and heroin
* Flash - LSD
* Flashers - LSD that is very hallucinogenic
* Flat blues - LSD
* Flat chunks - crack cut with benzocaine
* Flea powder - low purity heroin
* Florida snow - cocaine
* Flower - marijuana
* Flower tops - marijuana
* Fly Mexican airlines - to smoke marijuana
* Flying - under the influence of drugs
* Following that cloud - searching for drugs
* Foo foo stuff - heroin; cocaine
* Foo-foo dust - cocaine
* Foolish powder - heroin; cocaine
* Footballs - amphetamine
* 45 Minute Psychosis - Dimethyltryptamine
* Forwards - amphetamine
* Fraho/frajo - marijuana
* Freebase - smoking cocaine; crack
* Freeze - cocaine; renege on a drug deal
* French blue - amphetamine
* French fries - crack
* Fresh - PCP
* Friend - fentanyl
* Fries - crack
* Frios - marijuana laced with PCP
* Frisco special - cocaine, heroin and LSD
* Frisco speedball - cocaine, heroin and LSD
* Friskie powder - cocaine
* Fry - crack or marijuana laced with embalming fluid
* Fry daddy - crack and marijuana; cigarette laced with crack
* Fu - marijuana
* Fucked up - high on drugs
* Fuel - marijuana mixed with insecticides; PCP
* Fuete - hypodermic needle
* Fuma D'Angola - marijuana Portugese term
* Future - Crystal

* G - $1000 or 1 gram of drugs; term for an unfamiliar male
* Gak - line of meth or coke
* Gar - marijuana rolled in cigar paper
* G.B. - depressant
* GHB - gamma hydroxy butyrate
* G-rock - one gram of rock cocaine
* G-shot - small dose of drugs used to hold off withdrawal symptoms until full dose can be taken
* Gaffel - fake cocaine
* Gaffus - hypodermic needle
* Gage/gauge - marijuana
* Gagers - methcathinone
* Gaggers - methcathinone
* Galloping horse - heroin
* Gamot - heroin
* Gange - marijuana
* Gangster - marijuana
* Gangster pills - depressant
* Ganja - marijuana from Jamaica
* Gank - fake crack
* Garbage - inferior-quality drugs
* Garbage heads - users who buy crack from street dealers instead of cooking it themselves
* Garbage rock - crack
* Garr - large joint of marijuana
* Gash - marijuana
* Gasper - marijuana cigarette
* Gasper stick - marijuana cigarette
* Gato - heroin
* Gauge butt - marijuana
* Gee - opium
* Geek - crack and marijuana
* Geeker - crack user
* Geeze - to inhale cocaine
* Geezer - to inject a drug
* Geezin a bit of dee gee - injecting a drug
* George smack - heroin
* Get a gage up - to smoke marijuana
* Get a gift - obtain drugs
* Get down - to inject a drug
* Get high - to smoke marijuana
* Get lifted - under the influence of drugs
* Get off - to inject a drug; get "high"
* Get the wind - to smoke marijuana
* Get through - obtain drugs
* Ghana - marijuana
* Ghost - LSD
* Ghost busting - smoking cocaine; searching for white particles in the belief that they are crack
* Gick monster - crack smoker
* Gift-of-the-sun - cocaine
* Giggle smoke - marijuana
* Gimmick - drug injection equipment
* Gimmie - crack and marijuana
* Gin - cocaine
* Girl - cocaine; crack; heroin
* Girlfriend - cocaine
* Give wings - inject someone or teach someone to inject heroin
* Glacines - heroin
* Glad stuff - cocaine
* Glading - using inhalant
* Glass - hypodermic needle; amphetamine
* Glass gun - hypodermic needle
* Glo - crack
* Gluey - person who sniffs glue
* Go-fast - methcathinone
* Go into a sewer - to inject a drug
* Go loco - to smoke marijuana
* Go on a sleigh ride - to inhale cocaine
* Godfather - joint of weed laced with cocaine
* Godfather - cigar filled with marijuana or other type drug
* God's flesh - psilocybin/psilocin
* God's medicine - opium
* God's drug - morphine
* Going 90 mph - the peak of a trip
* Going to shoot a game of pool - getting ready to cop an eightball of crack
* Going to the dentist - nitrus oxide
* Gold - marijuana; crack
* Gold dust - cocaine
* Gold star - marijuana
* Golden Dragon - LSD
* Golden girl - heroin
* Golden leaf - very high quality marijuana
* Golf ball - crack
* Golf balls - depressant or LSD
* Golpe - heroin
* Goma - opium; black tar heroin
* Gondola - opium
* Gong - marijuana; opium
* Gong ringer - a fat joint
* Goob - methcathinone
* Good - PCP
* Good and plenty - heroin
* Good butt - marijuana cigarette
* Good giggles - marijuana
* Good go - proper amount of drugs for the money paid
* Good H - heroin
* Good lick - good drugs
* Goodfellas - fentanyl
* Goof butt - marijuana cigarette
* Goofball - cocaine and heroin; depressant
* Goofers - depressant
* Goofy's - LSD
* Goon - PCP
* Goon dust - PCP
* Gopher - person paid to pickup drugs
* Goric - opium
* Gorilla tab - PCP
* Gorilla biscuits - PCP
* Gorilla pills - depressant
* Got it going on - fast sale of drugs
* Graduate - completely stop using drugs or progress to stronger drugs
* Gram - hashish
* Grandpa - an old pipe used for smoking marijuana
* Grape parfait - LSD
* Grass - marijuana
* Grass brownies - marijuana
* Grata - marijuana
* Gravel - crack
* Gravy - to inject a drug; heroin
* Grease - currency
* Great bear - fentanyl
* Great tobacco - opium
* Green - inferior-quality marijuana; PCP; ketamine
* Green button - fresh button of peyote
* Green cigerette - joint of marijuana
* Green double domes - LSD
* Green dragons - depressant
* Green frog - depressant
* Green goddess - marijuana
* Green gold - cocaine
* Green goods - paper currency
* Green leaves - PCP
* Green single domes - LSD
* Green tea - PCP
* Green wedge - LSD
* Greens/green stuff - paper currency
* Greeter - marijuana
* Greta - marijuana
* Grey shields - LSD
* Griefo - marijuana
* Griff - marijuana
* Griffa - marijuana
* Griffo - marijuana
* Grit - crack
* Groceries - crack
* Grogged - really stoned or burnt out on marijuana
* Ground control - guide or caretaker during a hallucinogenic experience
* G spot tornado - equal parts rum & nyQuil
* Gum - opium
* Guma - opium
* Gun - to inject a drug; needle
* Gungun - marijuana
* Gunther - neighborhood pot dealer
* Gutter - vein into which a drug is injected
* Gutter junkie - addict who relies on others to obtain drugs
* Gyve - marijuana cigarette

* H - heroin
* H & C - heroin and cocaine
* H Caps - heroin
* Hache - heroin
* Hail - crack
* Hairy - heroin
* Half - 1/2 ounce
* Half-a-C - $50 bill
* Half a football field - 50 rocks of crack
* Half G - $500
* Half load - 15 bags (decks) of heroin
* Half moon - peyote
* Half piece - 1/2 ounce of heroin or cocaine
* Half track - crack
* Hamburger helper - crack
* Hand-to-hand - direct delivery and payment
* Hand-to-hand man - transient dealers who carry small amounts of crack
* Hanhich - marijuana
* Hanyak - smokable speed
* Happy cigarette - marijuana cigarette
* Happy dust - cocaine
* Happy powder - cocaine
* Happy trails - cocaine
* Hard - crack
* Hard candy - heroin
* Hardcore - heavy drug user
* Hard line - crack
* Hard rock - crack
* Hard stuff - opium; heroin
* Hardware - isobutyl nitrite
* Harm Reducer - marijuana
* Harry - heroin
* Hats - LSD
* Hash - marijuana
* Have a dust - cocaine
* Haven dust - cocaine
* Hawaiin - very high-potency marijuana
* Hawaiis finest - ice
* Hawaiian sunshine - LSD
* Hawk - LSD
* Hay - marijuana
* Hay butt - marijuana cigarette
* Haze - LSD
* Hazel - heroin
* HCP - PCP
* Head drugs - amphetamine
* Headlights - LSD
* Heart-on - inhalant
* Hearts - amphetamine
* Heart stoppers - very potent crack
* Heaven and Hell - PCP
* Heaven dust - heroin; cocaine
* Heavenly blue - LSD
* Heeled - having plenty of money
* Helen - heroin
* Hell dust - heroin
* He-man - fentanyl
* Hemp - marijuana
* Henpicking - searching on hands and knees for crack
* Henry - heroin
* Henry VIII - cocaine
* Her - cocaine
* Herb - marijuana
* Herb and Al - marijuana and alcohol
* Herba - marijuana
* Herms - PCP
* Hero - heroin
* Hero of the underworld - heroin
* Heroina - heroin
* Herone - heroin
* Hessle - heroin
* High - the effect drug users feel when using drugs
* Highbeams - the wide eyes of a person on crack
* Hikori - peyote
* Hikuli - peyote
* Him - heroin
* Hinkley - PCP
* Hippie crack - inhalant
* Hiropon - smokable methamphetamine
* Hit - crack; marijuana cigarette; to smoke marijuana
* Hits - LSD
* Hit the hay - to smoke marijuana
* Hit the main line - to inject a drug
* Hit the needle - to inject a drug
* Hit the pit - to inject a drug
* Hitch up the reindeers - to inhale cocaine
* Hitter - little pipe designed for only one hit
* Hitting up - injecting drugs
* HO - half ounce marijuana
* Hocus - opium; marijuana
* Hog - PCP
* Holli - a joint stuck in a pipe and then smoked
* Holding - possessing drugs
* Hombre - heroin
* Hombrecitos - psilocybin
* Homegrown - marijuana
* Honey - currency
* Honey blunts - Marijuana cigars sealed with honey
* Honey oil - ketamine; inhalant
* Honeymoon - early stages of drug use before addiction or dependency develops
* Hong-yen - heroin in pill form
* Hooch - marijuana
* Hoochie-Mamma - a two paper joint
* Hood - heroin, usually in 10-dollar capsules
* Hooded, to get - to use heroin without shooting it up; to snort it
* Hooked - addicted
* Hooter - cocaine; marijuana
* Hop/hops - opium
* Hopped up - under the influence of drugs
* Horn - to inhale cocaine; crack pipe
* Horning - heroin; to inhale cocaine
* Horse - heroin
* Horse heads - amphetamine
* Horse tracks - PCP
* Horse tranquilizer - PCP
* Hot box - to fill up a closed area with second-hand marijuana smoke
* Hot dope - heroin
* Hot heroin - poisoned to give to a police informant
* Hot ice - smokable methamphetamine
* Hot load/hot shot - lethal injection of an opiate
* Hot stick - marijuana cigarette
* Hotcakes - crack
* House fee - money paid to enter a crackhouse
* House piece - crack given to the owner of a crackhouse or apartment where crack users congregate
* How do you like me now? - crack
* Hows - morphine
* HRN - heroin
* Hubba, I am back - crack
* Hubba pigeon - crack user looking for rocks on a floor after a police raid
* Hubbas - crack, term from Northern CA
* Huff - inhalant
* Huffer - inhalant abuser
(of gas, glue, pam, ect.)
* Hulling - using others to get drugs
* Hunter - cocaine
* Hurry up - cocaine
* Hustle - attempt to obtain drug customers
* Hyatari - peyote
* Hydro - marijuana
* Hydrophonic - hydrophonically grown marijuana
* Hype - heroin addict; an addict
* Hype stick - hypodermic needle

* I am back - crack
* Ice - cocaine; methamphetamine; smokeable amphetamine; MDMA, PCP
* Ice cream habit - occasional use of drugs
* Ice cube - crack
* Icing - cocaine
* Idiot pills - depressant
* In - connected with drug suppliers
* Inbetweens - depressant; amphetamine
* Incense - opium
* Inca message - cocaine
* Indian boy - marijuana
* Indian hay - marijuana from India
* Indica - species of cannabis, found in hot climate, grows 3.5 to 4 feet
* Indo - marijuana, term from Northern CA
* Indonesian bud - marijuana; opium
* Infinity - LSD that lasts for a long period of time
* Instant zen - LSD
* Interplanetary mission - travel from one crackhouse to another in search of crack
* Isda - heroin
* Issues - crack
* IZM - marijuana

* J - marijuana cigarette
* J's - joints
* Jab/job - to inject a drug
* Jack - steal someone else's drugs
* Jackpot - fentanyl
* Jack-Up - to inject a drug
* Jag - keep a high going
* Jam - amphetamine; cocaine
* Jamaican Red - potent marijuana from Jamaica
* Jam cecil - amphetamine
* Jane - marijuana
* Jay smoke - marijuana
* Jay - marijuana cigarette
* Jee gee - heroin
* Jefferson airplane - used match cut in half to hold a partially smoked marijuana cigarette
* Jellies - depressant
* Jelly - cocaine
* Jelly baby - amphetamine
* Jelly bean - amphetamine; depressant
* Jelly beans - crack
* Jesus Christ acid - especially potent LSD
* Jet - ketamine
* Jet fuel - PCP
* Jim Jones - marijuana laced with cocaine and PCP
* Jive - heroin; marijuana; drugs
* Jive doo jee - heroin
* Jive stick - marijuana
* Johnny go fast - speed
* Johnson - crack
* Joint - marijuana cigarette
* Jojee - heroin
* Joker's smile ["he's got the joker's smile"] - extremely high on crack
* Jolly bean - amphetamine
* Jolly green - marijuana
* Jolly pop - casual user of heroin
* Jolt - to inject a drug; strong reaction to drugs
* Jones - heroin
* Jonesing - need for drugs
* Joy flakes - heroin
* Joy juice - depressant
* Joy plant - opium
* Joy pop - to inject a drug
* Joy popping - occasional use of drugs
* Joy powder - heroin; cocaine
* Joyride - going out and getting high
* Joy smoke - marijuana
* Joy stick - marijuana cigarette
* Ju-ju - marijuana cigarette
* Juan Valdez - marijuana
* Juanita - marijuana
* Juggle - sell drugs to another addict to support a habit
* Juggler - teen-aged street dealer
* Jugs - amphetamine
* Juice - steroids, PCP
* Juice joint - marijuana cigarette sprinkled with crack
* Jum - sealed plastic bag containing crack
* Jumbos - large vials of crack sold on the streets
* Junk - cocaine; heroin
* Junkie - addict

* K - Ketamine
* Kabayo - heroin
* Kabuki - crack pipe made from a plastic rum bottle and a rubber sparkplug cover
* Kaksonjae - smokable methamphetamine
* Kali - marijuana
* Kaliedescope - a type of LSD
* Kate bush - kind bud
* Kangaroo - crack
* Kaps - PCP
* Karachi - heroin
* Kaya - marijuana
* KB - potent marijuana
* K-blast - PCP
* Kentucky blue - marijuana
* Keesh - a fat bag
* Keller - ketamine
* Kellys day - ketamine
* Keyed - high on drugs
* KGB (killer green bud) - marijuana
* K-hole - periods of ketamine-induced confusion
* Kibbles & Bits - small crumbs of crack
* Kick - getting off a drug habit; inhalant
* Kicked - to pass out or about to pass out
* Kick stick - marijuana cigarette
* Kiddie dope - prescription drugs
* Kiff - marijuana
* Killer - marijuana; PCP
* Killer weed (1980s) - marijuana and PCP
* Killer weed (1960s) - marijuana
* Kilo - 2.2 pounds
* Kilter - marijuana
* Kind - marijuana
* Kind bud - marijuana
* King ivory - fentanyl
* King Kong pills - depressant
* King's habit - cocaine
* Kit - equipment used to inject drugs
* KJ - PCP
* Kleenex - MDMA
* Klingons - crack addicts
* Knuckle Samich - phat joint
* Kokomo - crack
* Koller joints - PCP
* Kools - PCP
* Kona Gold - strong marijuana grown on the Big Island in Hawaii
* Kram - to pack the bowl tight
* Kryptonite - crack
* Krystal - PCP
* Krystal joint - PCP
* Krippies - moist marijuana only to be smoked out of a bowl or bong
* Kumba - marijuana
* Kushempeng - marijuana
* Kutchie - marijuana
* KW - PCP

* L - LSD
* L.A. - long-acting amphetamine
* L.A. glass - smokable methamphetamine
* L.A. ice - smokable methamphetamine
* L.L. - marijuana
* Lace - cocaine and marijuana
* Lady - cocaine
* Lady caine - cocaine
* Lady snow - cocaine
* Lakbay diva - marijuana
* Lamborghini - crack pipe made from plastic rum bottle and a rubber sparkplug cover
* Las mujercitas - psilocybin
* Lason sa daga - LSD
* Laugh and scratch - to inject a drug
* Laughing gas - nitrous oxide
* Laughing grass - marijuana
* Laughing weed - marijuana
* Lay back - depressant
* Lay-out - equipment for taking drugs
* LBJ - LSD; PCP; heroin
* Leaky bolla - PCP
* Leaky leak - PCP
* Leaf - marijuana; cocaine
* Leapers - amphetamine
* Leaping - under the influence of drugs
* Leary's - LSD
* Legal speed - over the counter asthma drug; trade name = Minithin
* Lemon 714 - PCP
* Lemonade - heroin; poor quality drugs
* Lenllo - joint
* Lens - LSD
* Lethal weapon - PCP
* Lettuce - money
* Lib (Librium) - depressant
* Lid - 1 ounce of marijuana
* Lid proppers - amphetamine
* Life Saver - heroin
* Light stuff - marijuana
* Lightning - amphetamine
* Lima - marijuana
* Lime acid - LSD
* Line - cocaine
* Linga - crank
* Lipton Tea - inferior-quality drugs
* Lit up - under the influence of drugs
* Little bomb - amphetamine; heroin; depressant
* Little bowl of buddha - 10 gram bowl of marijuana buds or hash
* Little Green Friends - marijuana
* Little ones - PCP
* Little smoke - marijuana; psilocybin/psilocin
* Live ones - PCP
* Llesca - marijuana
* Load - 25 bags of heroin
* Loaded - high
* Loaf - marijuana
* Lobo - marijuana
* Locker room - isobutyl nitrite
* Locoweed - marijuana
* Log - PCP; marijuana cigarette
* Logor - LSD
* Loused - covered by sores and abscesses from repeated use of unsterile needles
* Love - crack
* Love affair - cocaine
* Love boat - marijuana dipped in formaldehyde; PCP
* Love doctor - MDMA
* Love drug - MDMA; depressant
* Love nuggets - marijuana
* Love pearls - alpha-ethyltyptamine
* Love potion #9 - MDMA
* Love pills - alpha-ethyltyptamine
* Love trip - MDMA and mescaline
* Love weed - marijuana
* Lovelies - marijuana laced with PCP
* Lovely - PCP
* LSD - lysergic acid diethylamide
* Lubage - marijuana
* Lucy in the sky with diamonds - LSD
* Lucky Charmz - ecstacy
* Ludes - depressant
* Luding out - depressant
* Luds - depressant
* Lunchbox - kids that do drugs
* Lunch head - alcoholic

* 420 - marijuana
* M - marijuana; morphine
* M.J. - marijuana
* M.O. - marijuana
* M.S. - morphine
* M.U. - marijuana
* M&M - depressant
* Machinery - marijuana
* Macon - marijuana
* Madman - PCP
* Mad dog - PCP
* Mad scientist - someone who makes crank
* Magic - PCP
* Magic dust - PCP
* Magic mushroom - psilocybin/psilocin
* Magic smoke - marijuana
* Main line - to inject a drug
* Mainliner - person who injects into the vein
* Make up - need to find more drugs
* Mama coca - cocaine
* Manhattan silver - marijuana
* Manteca - US Puerto Rican's slang for Heroin
* Marathons - amphetamine
* Mari - marijuana cigarette
* Marimba - marijuana
* Marshmallow reds - depressant
* Mary - marijuana
* Mary and Johnny - marijuana
* Mary Ann - marijuana
* Mary Jane - marijuana
* Mary Jonas - marijuana
* Mary Warner - marijuana
* Mary Weaver - marijuana
* Maserati - crack pipe made from a plastic rum bottle and a rubber sparkplug cover
* Matchbox - 1/4 ounce of marijuana or 6 marijuana cigarettes
* Matsakow - heroin
* Maui wauie - marijuana from Hawaii
* Max - gamma hydroxy butyrate dissolved in water and mixed with amphetamines
* Maxibolin - oral steroid
* Mayo - cocaine; heroin
* MDM - MDMA
* MDMA - methylenedioxy-methamphetamine
* Mean green - PCP
* Meg - marijuana
* Megg - marijuana cigarette
* Meggie - marijuana
* Mellow yellow - LSD
* Merchandise - drugs
* Merk - cocaine
* Mesc - mescaline
* Mescal - mescaline
* Mescap - capsule of mescaline
* Mescy - peyote
* Mese - mescaline
* Messorole - marijuana
* Meth - methamphetamine
* Meth head - regular user of methamphetamine
* Meth monster - person who has a violent reaction to methamphetamine
* Method - marijuana
* Methyltestosterone - oral steroid
* Mexican brown - heroin; marijuana
* Mexican horse - heroin
* Mexican mud - heroin
* Mexican mushroom - psilocybin/psilocin
* Mexican red - marijuana
* Mexican reds - depressant
* Mezc - mescaline
* Mickey Finn - depressant
* Mickey's - depressant
* Microdot - LSD
* Midnight oil - opium
* Midnight toker - some who smokes marijuana before bed
* Mighty Quinn - LSD
* Mighty Joe Young - depressant
* Mighty mezz - marijuana cigarette
* Mighty Mite - breed of marijuana plant with huge buds
* Million-dollar trap -a successful area where drug dealers trap
* Mind detergent - LSD
* Minglewood - hash & kind bud filled blunt
* Minibennie - amphetamine
* Mint leaf - PCP
* Mint weed - PCP
* Mira - opium
* Miss Emma - morphine
* Missile basing - crack liquid and PCP
* Mission - trip out of the crackhouse to obtain crack
* Mist - PCP; crack smoke
* Mister blue - morphine
* Modams - marijuana
* Mohasky - marijuana
* Mojo - cocaine; heroin
* Monkey - drug dependency; cigarette made from cocaine paste and tobacco
* Monkey dust - PCP
* Monkey tranquilizer - PCP
* Monos - cigarette made from cocaine paste and tobacco
* Monte - marijuana from South America
* Monty Hall - a person always trying to talk down the price or get a deal on drugs. Always a few dollars short.
* Mooca/moocah - marijuana
* Moon - mescaline
* Moonrock - crack and heroin
* Mooster - marijuana
* Moota/mutah - marijuana
* Mooters - marijuana cigarette
* Mootie - marijuana
* Mootos - marijuana
* Mor a grifa - marijuana
* More - PCP
* Morf - morphine
* Morning wake-up - first blast of crack from the pipe
* Morotgara - heroin
* Mortal combat - high-potency heroin
* Mosquitos - cocaine
* Mota/moto - marijuana
* Mother - marijuana
* Mother of God - LSD paper with naked woman on it
* Mother's little helper - depressant or specifically valium
* Mouth worker - one who takes drugs orally
* Movie star drug - cocaine
* Mow the grass - to smoke marijuana
* Mowing the Lawn - smoking marijuana
* Mud - opium; heroin
* Muerte - overdoseing
* Muggie - marijuana
* Mujer - cocaine
* Mule - carrier of drugs
* Munchies - to get real hungry after smoking herb
* Murder one - heroin and cocaine
* Murder 8 - fentanyl
* Mushrooms - psilocybin/psilocin
* Musk - psilocybin/psilocin
* Mutha - marijuana
* Muzzle - heroin

* Nail - marijuana cigarette
* Nailed - arrested
* Nanoo - heroin
* Nazi vitamens - crystal meth
* Nebbies - depressant
* Nemmies - depressant
* New acid - PCP
* New magic - PCP
* New Jack Swing - heroin and morphine
* Newspapers - LSD
* Nexus - 2C-B
* Nice and easy - heroin
* Nick - 0.5 grams of marijuana or 1/2 gram
* Nickel - 0.5 grams of marijuana or 1/2 gram
* Nickel bag - $5 worth of drugs; heroin
* Nickel deck - heroin
* Nickel note - $5 bill
* Nickelonians - crack addicts
* Niebla - PCP
* Nimbies - depressant
* Nitro - speed or nitrous
* Nitrous Oxide - nitrous
* Nix - stranger among the group
* Nod - effects of heroin
* Noise - heroin
* Nontoucher - crack user who doesn't want affection during or after smoking crack
* Northern Lights - extremly high-grade marijuana
* Nose - heroin
* Nose candy - cocaine
* Nose drops - liquified heroin
* Nose stuff - cocaine
* Nose powder - cocaine
* Nubs - peyote
* Nugget - amphetamine
* Nuggets - crack
* Number - marijuana cigarette
* Number 3 - cocaine, heroin
* Number 4 - heroin
* Number 8 - heroin
* Number 9 - ecstacy

* O - an ounce
* O - opium
* Oboy - marijuana
* O.J. - marijuana
* O.P. - opium
* O.P.P. - PCP
* Octane - PCP laced with gasoline
* Ogoy - heroin
* Oil - heroin, PCP
* Old Steve - heroin
* On a mission - searching for crack
* On a trip - under the influence of drugs
* On ice - in jail
* On the bricks - walking the streets
* On the nod - under the influence of narcotics or depressant
* One and one - to inhale cocaine
* One box tissue - one ounce of crack
* One-fifty-one - crack
* One hitter quiter - marijuana that takes one hit to obtain a high
* One way - LSD
* Ope - opium
* Optical illusions - LSD
* Orange barrels - LSD
* Orange crystal - PCP
* Orange cubes - LSD
* Orange haze - LSD
* Orange micro - LSD
* Orange wedges - LSD
* Oranges - amphetamine
* Oregano - hash
* Outerlimits - crack and LSD
* Outfit - heroin
* Owl - marijuana
* Owsley - LSD
* Owsley's acid - LSD
* O - ounce of marijuana
* Oz - inhalant
* Ozone - PCP
* OZ - ounce of marijuna or other drugs
* Ozzie - ounce of marijuana

* P - peyote, PCP
* PCP - phencyclidine
* PCPA - PCP
* P.R. (Panama Red) - marijuana
* P-dope - 20-30% pure heroin
* P-funk - heroin; crack and PCP
* Pack - heroin; marijuana
* Pack of rocks - marijuana cigarette
* Pakalolo - marijuana
* Pakistani black - marijuana
* Panama cut - marijuana
* Panama gold - marijuana
* Panama red - marijuana
* Panatella - large marijuana cigarette
* Panckes and syrup - combination of glutethimide and codeine cough syrup
* Pane - LSD
* Pangonadalot - heroin
* Panic - drugs not available
* Paps - rolling papers
* Paper acid - LSD
* Paper bag - container for drugs
* Paper blunts - marijuana within a paper casing rather than a tobacco leaf casing
* Paper boy - heroin peddler
* Parabolin - veterinary steroid
* Parachute - crack and PCP smoked; heroin
* Paradise - cocaine
* Paradise white - cocaine
* Parlay - crack
* Parsley - marijuana, PCP
* Paste - crack
* Pat - marijuana
* Patico - crack (Spanish)
* Paz - PCP
* Peace - LSD, PCP
* Peace pill - PCP
* Peace tablets - LSD
* Peaches - amphetamine
* Peanut - depressant
* Peanut butter - PCP mixed with peanut butter
* Peanut butter - a type of methamphetamine that is brown in color
* Pearl - cocaine
* Pearls - amyl nitrite
* Pearly gates - LSD or morning glory seeds
* Pebbles - crack
* Peddlar - drug supplier
* Pee Wee - crack; $5 worth of crack
* Peep - PCP
* Peg - heroin
* Pellets - LSD
* Pen yan - opium
* Pep pills - amphetamine
* Pepsi habit - occasional use of drugs
* Perfect High - heroin
* Perico - cocaine
* Perp - fake crack made of candle wax and baking soda
* Peter Pan - PCP
* Peth - depressant
* Permafried - high all the time
* Peruvian - cocaine
* Peruvian flake - cocaine
* Peruvian lady - cocaine
* Peyote - mescaline
* Phennies - depressant
* Phenos - depressant
* Pianoing - using the fingers to find lost crack
* Pid - possession with intent to distribute
* Piece - 1 ounce; cocaine; crack
* Piedras - crack (Spanish)
* Pig Killer - PCP
* Piles - crack
* Pimp - cocaine
* Pimp your pipe - lending or renting your crack pipe
* Pin - marijuana
* Pine - marijuana
* Pinner - small joint of marijuana
* Pin gon - opium
* Pin yen - opium
* Ping-in-wing - to inject a drug
* Pink blotters - LSD
* Pink hearts - amphetamine
* Pink ladies - depressant
* Pink Panther - LSD
* Pink robots - LSD
* Pink wedge - LSD
* Pink witches - LSD
* Pipe - crack pipe; marijuana pipe; vein into which a drug is injected; mix drugs with other substances
* Pipero - crack user
* Pit - PCP
* Pixies - amphetamine
* Piznacle - marijauna pipe
* Pizza - marijuana or LSD
* Pizza toppings - psilocybin/psilocin mushrooms
* Plant - hiding place for drugs
* Pocket rocket - marijuana
* Pod - marijuana
* Poison - heroin; fentanyl
* Poke - marijuana
* Pointing Hood - to shoot up heroin
* Polvo - heroin; PCP
* Polvo blanco - cocaine
* Polvo de angel - PCP
* Polvo de estrellas - PCP
* Pony - crack
* Poof - smoking ice
* Pool Hall - crack house where large quanties of crack are sold, usually $100.00 and up. Mostly eightballs and larger are sold. No nickel/diming stuff
* Poor man's pot - inhalant
* Pop - to inhale cocaine
* Poppers - isobutyl nitrite; amyl nitrite
* Poppy - heroin
* Pot - marijuana
* Pothead - someone who smokes pot (marijuana)
* Potato - LSD
* Potato chips - crack cut with benzocaine
* Potten bush - marijuana
* Powder - heroin; amphetamine
* Powder diamonds - cocaine
* Power puller - rubber piece attached to crack stem
* Pox - opium
* Pregnant - when a joint has a lump in the middle
* Prescription - marijuana cigarette
* Press - cocaine; crack
* Pretendica - marijuana
* Pretendo - marijuana
* Primo - crack; marijuana mixed with crack
* Primobolan - injectable and oral steroid
* Primos - cigarettes laced with cocaine and heroin
* Proviron - oral steroid
* Prudential - crack user
* Pseudocaine - phenylpropanolamine, an adulterant for cutting crack
* Puff - to smoke weed
* Puff the dragon - to smoke marijuana
* Puffer - crack smoker
* Puffy - PCP
* Pulborn - heroin
* Pull a will - vomiting from too much drug use
* Pullers - crack users who pull at parts of their bodies excessively
* Pumping - selling crack
* Pure - heroin
* Pure love - LSD
* Purple - ketamine
* Purple barrels - LSD
* Purple haze - LSD
* Purple hearts - LSD; amphetamine; depressant
* Purple flats - LSD
* Purple ozoline - LSD
* Purple rain - PCP
* Push - sell drugs
* Push shorts - to cheat or sell short amounts
* Pusher - one who sells drugs; metal hanger or umbrella rod used to scrape residue in crack stems

* Q - depressant
* Q.P. - quarter pound of marijuana
* Quad - depressant
* Quarter - 1/4 ounce or $25 worth of drugs
* Quarter bag - $25 worth of drugs
* Quarter moon - hashish
* Quarter piece - 1/4 ounce
* Quartz - smokable speed
* Quas - depressant
* Queen Ann's lace - marijuana
* Queeted - when you get WAY too high off half a bowl
* Quicksilver - isobutyl nitrite
* Quill - methamphetamine; heroin; cocaine
* Quinolone - injectable steroid

* RB - resin bud (marijuana)
* Racehorse charlie - cocaine; heroin
* Ragweed - inferior-quality marijuana; heroin
* Railroad weed - marijuana
* Rail - large dose of crystal meth
* Rainbows - depressant
* Rainy day woman - marijuana
* Rambo - heroin
* Rane - cocaine; heroin
* Rangood - marijuana grown wild
* Rap - criminally charged; to talk with someone
* Raspberry - female who trades sex for crack or money to buy crack
* Rasta weed - marijuana
* Rat - someone that turns drug dealers in to the police
* Raw - crack
* Rave - party designed to enhance a hallucinogenic experience through music and behavior
* Razed - under the influence of drugs
* Ready rock - cocaine; crack; heroin
* Recompress - change the shape of cocaine flakes to resemble "rock"
* Recycle - LSD
* Red - under the influence of drugs
* Red and blue - depressant
* Red bullets - depressant
* Red caps - crack
* Red cross - marijuana
* Red chicken - heroin
* Red devil - depressant, PCP
* Red dirt - marijuana
* Reds - depressant
* Red eagle - heroin
* Red phosphorus - smokable speed
* Reefer - marijuana
* Register - to allow blood to flow back into needle just prior to injecting heroin
* Regular P - crack
* Reindeer dust - heroin
* Rhine - heroin
* Rhythm - amphetamine
* Riding the train - using cocaine
* Riding the wave - under the influence of drugs
* Rig - equipment used to inject drugs
* Righteous bush - marijuana
* Ringer - good hit of crack
* Ripped - under the influence of drugs
* Rippers - amphetamine
* Roach - butt of marijuana cigarette
* Roach clip - holds partially smoked marijuana cigarette
* Road dope - amphetamine
* Robo-ing - drinking robotussin with codeine
* Roca - crack (Spanish)
* Roche - Rophynol; (see "roofies")
* Rock attack - crack
* Rock house - place where crack is sold and smoked
* Rock(s) - cocaine; crack
* Rocket caps - dome-shaped caps on crack vials
* Rocket fuel - PCP
* Rockets - marijuana cigarette
* Rockette - female who uses crack
* Rocks of hell - crack
* Rock star - female who trades sex for crack or money to buy crack
* Rocky III - crack
* Roid rage - aggressive behavior caused by excessive steroid use
* Roll - MDMA
* Roller - to inject a drug
* Rollers - police
* Rolling - MDMA
* Roofies - Rohypnol; a sedative that makes users feel very drunk
* Rook - person who can't hang.....can't handle their drugs
* Rooster - crack
* Root - marijuana
* Rope - marijuana
* Roples - Rophynol; (see "roofies")
* Rosa - amphetamineRose marie
* Roses - amphetamine
* Rox - crack
* Roxanne - cocaine; crack
* Royal blues - LSD
* Royal Temple Ball - resin mixed with LSD then rolled in to a ball
* Roz - crack
* Ruderalis - species of cannabis, found in Russia, grows 1 to 2.5 feet
* Ruffles - Rophynol; (see "roofies")
* Runners - people who sell drugs for others
* Running - MDMA
* Rupture - PCP
* Rush - isobutyl nitrite
* Rush snappers - isobutyl nitrite
* Russian sickles - LSD

* Sack - heroin
* Sacrament - LSD
* Sacre mushroom - psilocybin
* Sak - bag of marijuana
* Salad - a bowl of of marijuana laced with other drugs. Usually hash or cocaine ('Caesar Salad').
* Salt - heroin
* Salt and pepper - marijuana
* Sam - federal narcotics agent
* Sancocho - to steal (Spanish)
* Sandoz - LSD
* Sandwich - two layers of cocaine with a layer of heroin in the middle
* San Pedro - mescaline
* Santa Marta - marijuana
* Sasfras - marijuana
* Satan's secret - inhalant
* 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
* Sativa - species of cannabis, found in cool, damp climate, grows up to 18 feet
* Scaffle - PCP
* Scag - heroin
* Scat - heroin
* Scate - heroin
* Schmeck - cocaine
* Schoolboy - cocaine, codeine
* Schoolcraft - crack
* Scissors - marijuana
* Score - purchase drugs
* Scorpion - cocaine
* Scott - heroin
* Scottie - cocaine
* Scotty - cocaine; crack; the high from crack
* Scramble - crack
* Scratch - money
* Scruples - crack
* Scuffle - PCP
* Seccy - depressant
* Seeds - marijuana
* Seggy - depressant
* Sen - marijuana
* Seni - peyote
* Sernyl - PCP
* Serpico 21 - cocaine
* Server - crack dealer
* Sess - marijuana
* Set - place where drugs are sold
* Sevenup - cocaine; crack
* Sewer - vein into which a drug is injected
* Sezz - marijuana
* Shabu - ice
* Shake - marijuana
* Shaker/baker/water - materials needed to freebase cocaine; shaker bottle, baking soda, water
* Sharps - needles
* Shaman - peyote
* She - cocaine
* Sheets - PCP
* Sheet rocking - crack and LSD
* Sherm - a cigarette that has been dipped in embalming fluid
* Shermans - PCP or PCP laced cigarette
* Sherms - PCP; crack
* Shmagma - marijuana
* Shmeck/schmeek - heroin
* Shoot/shoot up - to inject a drug
* Shoot the breeze - nitrous oxide
* Shooting gallery - place where drugs are used
* Shot - to inject a drug
* Shot down - under the influence of drugs
* Shot Gun - someone puts the joint or blunt in their mouth backwards and blows the smoke into someone's mouth.
* Shotgun toke - inhalation during orgasm
* Shoot a game of pool - smoke an eightball of crack
* Shrooms - psilocybin/psilocin
* Shrimp - marijuana
* Shwag - low-grade marijuana
* Siddi - marijuana
* Sightball - crack
* Silly Putty - psilocybin/psilocin
* Simple Simon - psilocybin/ psilocin
* Sinse - marijuana
* Sinsemilla - potent variety marijuana
* Sixty-two - 2 1/2 ounces of crack
* Skee - opium
* Skeegers/skeezers - crack-smoking prostitute
* Sketch - a bad reaction to LSD or marijuana
* Sketching - coming down from a speed-induced high
* Skid - heroin
* Skies - refers to scales used to weigh drugs
* Skied - under the influence of drugs
* Skin popping - injecting drugs under the skin
* Skuffle - PCP
* Skunk - marijuana
* Slab - crack
* Slack - a bag that don't weigh out
* Slam - to inject a drug
* Slanging - selling drugs
* Sleeper - heroin; depressant
* Sleet - crack
* Slick superspeed - methcathinone
* Slime - heroin
* Slinging - dealing drugs
* Slits - MDMA
* Smack - heroin
* Smears - LSD
* smoochywoochypoochy - marijuana
* Smoking - PCP
* Smoke - heroin and crack; crack; marijuana
* Smoke Canada - marijuana
* Smoke-out - under the influence of drugs
* Smoke you out - smoke marijuana with you
* Smoking gun - heroin and cocaine
* Snap - amphetamine
* Snappers - isobutyl nitrite
* Sniff - to inhale cocaine; inhalant; methcathinone
* Snite - lighter used to smoke drugs
* Snop - marijuana
* Snort - to inhale cocaine; use inhalant
* Snot - residue produced from smoking amphetamine
* Snot balls - rubber cement rolled into balls and burned
* Snow - cocaine; heroin; amphetamine
* Snowball - cocaine and heroin
* Snow bird - cocaine
* Snowcones - cocaine
* Snow pallets - amphetamine
* Snow seals - cocaine and amphetamine
* Snow soke - crack
* Snow white - cocaine
* Spliffy - joint of marijuana
* Society high - cocaine
* Soda - injectable cocaine used in Hispanic communities
* Soft - cocaine (cf hard - crack)
* Softballs - depressant
* Soles - hashish
* Soma - PCP
* Sopers - depressant
* Space base - crack dipped in PCP; hollowed out cigar refilled with PCP and crack
* Space cadet - crack dipped in PCP
* Space cadet - someone high on drugs
* Space dust - crack dipped in PCP
* Spaced out - high on marijuana
* Space ship - glass pipe used to smoke crack
* Spare time - possessing marijuana
* Spark an owl - smoke a gigantic joint
* Sparking an owl - lighting a joint
* Spark it up - to smoke marijuana
* Sparkle plenty - amphetamine
* Sparklers - amphetamine
* Splaff - marijuana cigerette laced with acid
* Special "K" - ketamine
* Special la coke - ketamine
* Speed - methamphetamine; amphetamine; crack
* Speed boat - marijuana, PCP, crack
* Speed freak - habitual user of methamphetamine
* Speed for lovers - MDMA
* Speedball - heroin and cocaine; amphetamine
* Spider blue - heroin
* Spider web - scam to rob someone of their dope and/or money
* Spike - to inject a drug; needle
* Splash - amphetamine
* Spliff - marijuana cigarette
* Splim - marijuana
* Split - half and half or to leave
* Splivins - amphetamine
* Spoc - police officers (Cops spelled backwards)
* Spoon - 1/16 ounce of heroin; paraphernalia used to prepare heroin for injection
* Spores - PCP
* Sporting - to inhale cocaine
* Spray - inhalant
* Sprung - person just starting to use drugs
* Square dancing tickets - LSD
* Square mackerel - marijuana, term from Florida
* Square time Bob - crack
* Squirrel - smoking cocaine, marijuana and PCP; LSD
* Stack - marijuana
* Stacking - taking steroids with a prescription
* Stackola - stacking money
* Star - methcathinone
* Stardust - cocaine, PCP
* Star-spangled powder - cocaine
* Stash - place to hide drugs
* Stash areas - drug storage and distribution areas
* Stat - Methcathinone
* Steamroller - pipe used to smoke marijuana
* Steerer - person who directs customers to spots for buying crack
* Stem - cylinder used to smoke crack
* Stems - marijuana
* Step on - dilute drugs
* Stick - marijuana, PCP
* Stimey - dime bag
* Stinky - pot
* Stink weed - marijuana
* Stoned - under the influence of drugs
* Stones - crack
* Stoner - someone who stays high on marijuana
* Stoppers - depressant
* STP - PCP
* Straight - having drugs to sell
* Straw - marijuana cigarette
* Strawberries - depressant
* Strawberry - female who trades sex for crack or money to buy crack
* Strawberry fields - LSD
* Strung out - heavily addicted to drugs
* Stuff - heroin
* Stumbler - depressant
* Sugar - cocaine; LSD; heroin
* Sugar block - crack
* Sugar cubes - LSD
* Sugar lumps - LSD
* Sugar weed - marijuana
* Sunshine - LSD
* Super - PCP
* Super acid - ketamine
* Super C - ketamine
* Super Grass - PCP
* Super ice - smokable methamphetamine
* Super-Jaded - blitzed off drugs; unable to think clearly
* Super joint - PCP
* Super kools - PCP
* Super weed - PCP
* Supergrass - marijuana
* surfer - PCP
* Swag - poor quality marijuana
* Sweet Jesus - heroin
* Sweet Lucy - marijuana
* Sweet stuff - heroin; cocaine
* Sweets - amphetamine
* Swilly - kind of drunk
* Swisher - cigar emptied and filled with marijuana.
* synthetic cocaine - PCP
* Synthetic THT - PCP

* T - acid tabs
* T - cocaine; marijuana
* Tabs - LSD
* Tail lights - LSD
* Taima - marijuana
* Taking a cruise - PCP
* Takkouri - marijuana
* Tampon - a fat joint
* Tango & Cash - fentanyl
* Tar - opium; heroin
* Tardust - cocaine
* 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
* T-buzz - PCP
* Tea - marijuana, PCP
* Tea party - to smoke marijuana
* Teardrops - dosage units of crack packaged in the cut-off corners of plastic bags
* Tecate - heroin
* Tecatos - Hispanic heroin addicts
* Teddy bears - LSD
* Teenage - 1/16 gram of methamphetamine
* Teener - 1/16 crack rock (given to us by a narcotics agent)
* Teeth - cocaine; crack
* Tension - crack
* Tex-mex - marijuana
* Texas pot - marijuana
* Texas tea - marijuana
* Thai sticks - bundles of marijuana soaked in hashish oil; marijuana buds bound on short sections of bamboo
* THC - tetrahydrocannabinol
* The beast - heroin
* The C - methcathinone
* The great white hope - crack
* The devil - crack
* The witch - heroin
* Therobolin - injectable steroid
* Thing - heroin; cocaine; main drug interest at the moment
* Thirst monsters - heavy crack smokers
* Thirteen - marijuana
* Thoroughbred - drug dealer who sells pure narcotics
* Thrust - isobutyl nitrite
* Thrusters - amphetamine
* Thumb - marijuana
* Tic - PCP in powder form
* Tic tac - PCP
* Ticket - LSD
* Tie - to inject a drug
* Tin - container for marijuana; a marijauna pipe made out of tinfoil
* Tina - powdered inhalable crystal methamphetamine
* Tish - PCP
* Tissue - crack
* Titch - PCP
* Toilet water - inhalant
* Toke - to inhale cocaine; to smoke marijuana
* Toke up - to smoke marijuana
* Toncho - octane booster which is inhaled
* Tooles - depressant
* Tools - equipment used for injecting drugs
* Toot - cocaine; to inhale cocaine
* Tootie - meth
* Tooties - depressant
* Tootsie roll - heroin
* Top gun - crack
* Topi - mescaline
* Tops - peyote
* Torch - marijuana
* Torch cooking - smoking cocaine base by using a propane or butane torch as a source of flame
* Torch up - to smoke marijuana
* Torpedo - crack and marijuana
* Toss up - female who trades sex for crack or money to
* buy crack
* Totally spent - MDMA hangover
* Toucher - user of crack who wants affection before, during, or after smoking crack
* Tout - person who introduces buyers to sellers
* Toxy - opium
* Toys - opium
* TR-6s - amphetamine
* Tracers - visual effects of hallucinogens
* Track - to inject a drug
* Tracks - row of needle marks on a person
* Tragic magic - crack dipped in PCP
* Trails - LSD-induced perception that moving objects leave multiple images or trails behind them
* Trank - PCP
* Tranq - depressant
* Trap - hiding place for drugs
* Trap boys - an area where the block is hot from drugdealers
* Trapping - drug-dealer from US south
* Trash - herion
* Trashed - under the influence
* Trays - bunches of vials
* Travel agent - LSD supplier
* Trees - marijuana or pot
* Trip - LSD; alpha-ethyltyptamine
* Troop - crack
* Trophobolene - injectable steroid
* Truck drivers - amphetamine
* TT1 - PCP
* TT2 - PCP
* TT3 - PCP
* Tubes - water pipes or bongs
* Tuie - depressant
* Turbo - crack and marijuana
* Turf - place where drugs are sold
* Turkey - cocaine; amphetamine or hash
* Turnabout - amphetamine
* Turned on - introduced to drugs; under the influence
* Tutti-frutti - flavored cocaine developed by a Brazillian gang
* Tweak mission - on a mission to find crack
* Tweaker - crack user looking for rocks on the floor after a police raid
* Tweaking - drug-induced paranoia; peaking on speed
* Tweeds - marijuana
* Tweek - methamphetamine-like substance
* Tweeker - methcathinone
* Tweeker - a person addicted to meythamphetamines
* Twenty - $20 rock of crack
* Twenty-five - LSD
* Twist - marijuana cigarette
* Twistum - marijuana cigarette
* Two for nine - two $5 vials or bags of crack for $9

* Ultimate - crack
* Uncle - Federal agents
* Uncle Fester - glass pipe
* Uncle Milty - depressant
* Unkie - morphine
* Up against the stem - addicted to smoking marijuana
* Uppers - amphetamine
* Uppies - amphetamine
* Ups and downs - depressant
* Utopiates - hallucinogens
* Uzi - crack; crack pipe

* V - the depressant Valium
* Valley dolls - LSD
* Vaporizer - vaporizes marijuana and leaves you with just the THC
* Venom - PCP
* Viper's weed - marijuana
* Vodka acid - LSD
* Volcano 5 - red LSD paper

* Wac - PCP on marijuana
* Wack - PCP
* Wacky Tobacky - marijuana
* Wacky weed - marijuana
* Waffles - hits of LSD
* Wake ups - amphetamine
* Wasted - heavily stoned
* Water - methamphetamine, PCP
* Wave - crack
* Wedding bells - LSD
* Wedge - LSD
* Weed - marijuana, PCP
* Weed out - weed for sale
* Weed tea - marijuana
* Weightless - high on crack
* Weltschmerz - heroin withdrawal
* Wet - PCP
* Whack - PCP and heroin
* Wheat - marijuana
* When-shee - opium
* Whippets - nitrous oxide
* White - amphetamine
* White ball - crack
* White boy - heroin
* White cloud - crack smoke
* White cross - methamphetamine; amphetamine
* White dust - LSD
* White fluff - LSD
* White ghost - crack
* White girl - cocaine; heroin
* White-haired lady - marijuana
* White horizon - PCP
* White horse - cocaine
* White junk - heroin
* White lady - cocaine; heroin
* White lightning - LSD
* White mosquito - cocaine
* White nurse - heroin
* White Owsley's - LSD
* White powder - cocaine; PCP
* White stuff - heroin
* White sugar - crack
* White tornado - crack
* Whiteout - isobutyl nitrite
* Whites - amphetamine
* Whiz bang - cocaine and heroin
* Wiggin - needing some drugs
* Wild cat - methcathinone and cocaine
* Window glass - LSD
* Window pane - LSD
* Wings - heroin; cocaine
* Winstrol - oral steroid
* Winstrol V - veterinary steroid
* Witch - heroin; cocaine
* Witch hazel - heroin
* Wizzard - ounce of marijuana
* Wizzard of oz - ounce of marijuana
* Wobble weed - PCP
* Wolf - PCP
* Wollie - rocks of crack rolled into a marijuana cigarette
* Wonder star - methcathinone
* Wood - marijuana
* Wooer - a joint
* Woolah - a hollowed out cigar refilled with marijuana and crack
* Woolas - cigarette laced with cocaine; marijuana cigarette sprinkled with crack
* Woolies - marijuana amd crack or PCP
* Wooly - cocaine & marijuana cigarette
* Wooly blunts - marijuana and crack or PCP
* Wooz - marijuana
* Working - selling crack
* Working half - crack rock weighing half gram or more
* Works - equipment for injecting drugs
* Worm - PCP
* Wuwoo - marijuana & cocaine
* Wrecking crew - crack

* X - marijuana; MDMA; amphetamine
* X-ing - MDMA
* XTC - MDMA

* Yahoo/yeaho - crack
* Yale - crack
* Yeh - marijuana
* Yellow - LSD; depressant
* Yellow bam - methamphetamine
* Yellow bullets - depressant
* Yellow dimples - LSD
* Yellow fever - PCP
* Yellow jackets - depressant
* Yellow submarine - marijuana
* Yellow sunshine - LSD
* Yen pop - marijuana
* Yen Shee Suey - opium wine
* Yen sleep - restless, drowsy state after LSD use
* Yerba - marijuana
* Yerba mala - PCP and marijuana
* Yesca - marijuana
* Yesco - marijuana
* Yeyo - cocaine, Spanish term
* Yimyom - crack
* Ying - marijuana
* Yuppie Flu - the ongoing effects of a cocaine-snorting habit

* Z - 1 ounce of heroin
* Zacatecas purple - marijuana from Mexico
* Zambi - marijuana
* Zen - LSD
* Zero - opium
* Zig Zag man - LSD; marijuana; marijuana rolling papers
* Zip - cocaine
* Zips - oz of any type drug
* Zol - marijuana cigarette
* Zombie - PCP; heavy user of drugs
* Zombie weed - PCP
* Zoinked - intoxicated on drugs to the point of uselessness
* Zooie - holds butt of marijuana cigarette
* Zoom - PCP; marijuana laced with PCP
* Zoomers - individuals who sell fake crack and then flee

Sunday, April 13, 2008

Ten UI Lessons from the Real World

Today I am going to teach some UI lessons based on signs and pictures of the real world. If you pay careful attention, you can realize that they do have lessons to be learned and you can use that knowledge to improve your UIs. This is a valid approach because we – as humans – have a common way of looking at things, be it a system UI, a coffee machine, a vacuum cleaner or signs on the roads. Signs on a road are my favorites because they guide the driver pretty much like icons guide users on a system interface. Let’s start our lessons.

Lesson 1 – Review your Icons

Please look carefully at the sign on the left. What is the meaning of that sign? Are there cows that bite and eat cars?!?

Actually, if you add an icon to your application, make sure it is understandable. Don’t try to create your own if you are not prepared for this task. UI designers should handle that. The biggest issue behind this problem is the fact that users have fear of clicking on things they don’t understand. This can get even worse if their money is involved in the action.

Another problem related to icons is best explained when we look at the image on the right. At first glance, you might see a dentist with a patient. But if you look closer, you might note a dirty second meaning. Would you let your wife go to that dentist? I don’t think so...

Lesson 2 – Unrelated information shouldn’t be displayed together

Look at this second example. By placing both signs together, it is inevitable to imagine people hunting children. When the worker placed the second sign, he probably saw the problem, but he didn’t care. He might have thought that the problem was with him, not with other people.

Trust me, this also happens to your UI. Please keep unrelated information clearly separated from other types of information.

Lesson 3 – Use the right punctuation or appropriate separators

Isn’t that yummy? This might be good for your cholesterol levels.

Note that a missing separator clearly creates a misleading scenario that can ruin your business. Your interface can also suffer from that if you don’t pay careful attention. If you are not fully convinced, remember that when you read the same sentence several times, your brain starts to ignore or misinterpret it.

Lesson 4 – Redundancy increases complexity

This sign is in Portuguese, but I don’t think we need a translation here. The problem is right ahead and it is difficult to understand why people keep repeating the same information again and again. What worries me is the fact that they do that too often.

Redundancy might be important in some cases (especially when it comes to security), but it can be avoided in most situations. Note that when we remove redundancy we improve simplicity.

Another type of redundancy is in the meaning of words. The next sign provides a good example of how bad this can be. Maybe they are really telling the whole truth...

Lesson 5 – Identify and remove conflicting ideas

Conflicting ideas can be deadly critical. Look at the three pictures below and think about their explanations: an ant that goes to the opposite direction of the sign, police that can’t turn right while normal people can do so, or a land full of poison just to protect living animals. What could be stranger than that?

The same concepts apply to user interfaces. It is very easy to think that you wouldn’t do such mistakes, but people do that and we have to admit. So look carefully at your UIs and search for conflicting ideas.

Lesson 6 – Hide unnecessary precision

Sometimes too much precision can be useless. Take a closer look at the next sign and let me know if that extra half mile is important to you. Information like that is inappropriate for the situation and only adds noise and clutter. Drivers usually have just a few seconds to read a sign and the more information you add, the worse it will be. The same applies to a software UI.

Lesson 7 – Fix typos

Typos happen in every corner of the world (see pictures on the right) and it is your responsibility to fix them. It is quite common nowadays to have non-native speakers in the development team. So, besides typos, people can simply write wrong words because they don’t happen to master the UI language.

Lesson 8 – Sentences with the right meaning

A sentence with a wrong meaning is worse than a typo. That’s the case of our next sign: If your worries aren’t strong enough to kill you, the church can give *them* a hand.

Sentences in the UI can also be misleading, mainly when the system tries to explain more than needed. Your UI – and its sentences – should be simple, small and clear enough to guide the users.

Lesson 9 – Alignment

Alignment is important because users don’t read text on the UI. They scan it. So, well aligned text and controls can help dividing the screen into digestible pieces of information. Unfortunately this isn’t the case of our next picture. After reading the first sign, I wonder if people hire cats to make burgers with their flesh.

Lesson 10 – Creativity saves the day

At last, remember that your creativity can connect the user with a whole new experience. Let your imagination fly when you build user interfaces, as it happens with the guys from the last picture. Good interfaces make users forget their computers pretty much like readers forget their books when they read good stories

Conclusion

This article was an attempt to show my different point of view on user interfaces. The idea of showing real signs is just a funny way to teach concepts that can make applications more usable. Remember that everything around us can teach lessons, but only those that really pay attention can take advantage of that. This is a daily exercise that you should execute when you drive or walk on the streets. It is worth trying, trust me.

If you have other examples, please send them to me so that I can write them down as the second part of this article.