Slang Drug Terms
Slang Drug Terms
Slang Drug Terms
Parents, teachers and other gatekeepers often overhear children using coded, cryptic language and
wonder if the children could possibly be referring to drugs. The following are some current street or
slang drug terms. Please note that these terms can change frequently and often. While these terms
are not always related to drugs, any reference to any of the following should be taken seriously, and
follow‐up action is needed. Even if a child is just "joking", he/she is already "buying into" at least
part of the drug scene, and adults should investigate.
A - LSD; amphetamine
A-Bomb - Marijuana joint with heroin or opium; cigarette that contains heroin or marijuana
Abe - $5 worth of drugs
Abe’s Cabe - $5 bill
Abandominiums - Abandoned row houses where drugs are used.
Abolic - Veterinary steroid
Acapulco Gold - Very potent strain of marijuana from Acapulco, Mexico; marijuana
Acapulco Red - Marijuana
Ace - Marijuana cigarette; PCP
Acid - LSD
Acid Head - User of LSD; "Acid Freak"
Adam - Ecstasy; MDMA
Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden - MDMA (methylenedioxymethamphetamine) and
MDEA combo; MBDB
Afgani Indica - Marijuana
African - Marijuana
African Black - Marijuana
African Bush - Marijuana
African Salad - Catha edulis a.k.a. bushman's tea, gat, kat, khat, miraa, qat, chat, tohai, and tschat; a
flowering shrub native to northeast Africa and the Arabian Peninsula. Fresh khat leaves contain cathinone
- a Schedule I drug under the Controlled Substances Act.
African Woodbine - Marijuana cigarette
Aftershock - 40% whiskey crystals, you eat them
Agonies - Withdrawal symptoms
Aimies - Amphetamine; amyl nitrite
AIP - Heroin from Afghanistan, Iran, and Pakistan
Air Blast - Inhalant
Airhead - Marijuana user; under the influence of marijuana
Airplane - Marijuana
Alcohol - Booze, brews, hard stuff, hooch, juice, sauce
Alice B. Toklas - A woman known for her use of marijuana as an ingredient in her brownie recipe;
marijuana-laced brownie
All-American - Cocaine
All Lit Up - Under the influence of drugs
All Star - User of multiple drugs
Alley Juice - Very cheap wine, "Grapes"
Alpha-ET - Alpha-ethltyptamine
Ames - Amphetamine
Amidone - Methadone
Amoeba - PCP
Amp - Amphetamine; marijuana dipped in formaldehyde or embalming fluid, sometimes laced with
PCP and smoked also known as illym leek, crazy Eddie, wet, purple rain
Amped - High
Amp Joint - Marijuana cigarette laced with some form of narcotic
Amped-Out - Fatigue after using amphetamines, methamphetamines; using the maximum amount of
seroids your body can take
Amphetamines - Designer stimulant drugs; also known as A, aimies, ames, amp, beans, bennies,
bens, benz, black beauties, black birds, black bombers, black hollies, black mollies, blue boy, cartwheels,
Christmas tree, crank, crystal, dexies, football, ice, lip poppers, meth, methamphetamine, methcathinone,
snow, snow pallets, speed, star, uppers, west coast turnarounds, 357 magnums
Amping - Accelerated heartbeat caused by drug use
Amy - Inhalants
Amytal - Barbiturate; depressant
Anadrol - Oral steroid
Anatrofin - Injectable steroid
Anavar - Oral steroid
ANDRO - Androsteindione
Androsteindione - Testosterone-boosting "nutritional supplement, made famous by baseball player
Mark McGuire, ANDRO
Angel - Phencyclidine or PCP
Angel Dust - PCP
Angel Hair - PCP
Angel Mist - PCP
Angie - Cocaine
Angola - Marijuana
Animal - LSD
Animal Trank - PCP
Animal Tranquilizer - PCP
Antifreeze - Heroin
Apple Jacks - Crack Cocaine
Are You Anywhere? - Do you use marijuana?
Aries - Heroin
Aroma of Men - Isobutyl nitrite
Artillery - Equipment for shooting drugs
Ashes - Marijuana
Ash Catcher - Allows smoke to be double-filtered when attached to the stem of a standing waterpipe
and keeps the waterpipe free of debris.
Assassin Of Youth - Marijuana
Astro Turf - Marijuana
Atom Bomb - Marijuana mixed with heroin
Atshitshi - Marijuana
Aunt Hazel - Heroin
Aunt Mary - Marijuana
Aunt Nora - Cocaine
Aunti - Opium
Aunti Emma - Opium
Aurora Borealis – PCP