Ringsend & District Response to Drugs 

Glossary of Slang Terms

 

**Please note that this glossary is by no means complete. New terms will continuously be created, whilst others will become obsolete. There will also be local variations of some of these terms.

Remember - many of these terms / slang can often refer to activities totally unrelated to drug use so do not conclude that drugs or drug use is being referred to on the basis of this glossary alone.

 

Slang terms

• Acid � LSD

• Acid Head � LSD user

• Back Flush � to wash out a syringe with blood

• Bag � container for drugs, usually paper fold of heroin

• Bang � to inject drugs (as in bang up heroin)

• Barrel � syringe 

• Blanks � poor quality drugs

• Blow � cannabis, cocaine, heroin

• Bombed out � under the influence of drugs

• Brown Sugar � heroin

• Bum Trip/Bummer � no good, unpleasant

• Burn � a rip-off or fraud

• Bust � to execute a search warrant

• Buzz � pleasurable sensation or high from drugs

• C � cocaine 

• Carrier � supplier of drugs; usually someone who delivers drugs for someone else 

• Charlie � cocaine 

• Chasing the Dragon � smoking heroin

• Clean � to achieve drug-free state

• Coke � cocaine 

• Cold Turkey � withdrawal from drugs, usually without medical help 

• Come down � withdrawal effects

• Come off � stop taking drugs 

• Cook up � prepare drugs for injection

• Crack � cocaine in a form for smoking

• Crash/Crash out � to pass out, to go to sleep

• Cut � to dilute powdered drugs by adding an inert substance to increase bulk

• DS � drug squad

• Dabble � using small irregular amounts of drugs in a non-dependent manner

• Deal � buy or sell drugs; name for the purchased drugs

• Dealer � seller of drugs 

• Detox � coming off drugs 

• DF�s � DF118 (Dihydrocodeine tablets)

• Dope � a drug, specifically cannabis, or in some areas heroin

• Dragon � heroin

• Draw � to smoke a drug by chasing, especially heroin

• Drop � take LSD

• Drying out � detoxing from drugs, usually alcohol 

• E � ecstasy 

• Ecstasy � MDMA 

• ESB � Ecstasy

• Fix � injection 

• Flake out � to lose consciousness

• Flints � small container of crack cocaine rocks

• Flushing � drawing blood back into syringe or cleaning syringe with needle

• Fold � small paper fold containing deal of a drug, usually heroin

• Freak out � psychedelic experience, used loosely to mean a wild time

• Free Basing � method of smoking cocaine

• Ganja � cannabis 

• Gear � a drug, usually heroin

• Go Down � receive a prison sentence

• Goof ( off ) � doze off after taking a drug, usually heroin

• Grass � cannabis

• H � heroin 

• Hash/Hashish � cannabis resin

• Hemp - cannabis

• Hep � Hepatitis 

• Herb � cannabis 

• High � feeling good, in a state of euphoria

• Hit/Hit-Up � to inject drugs

• Hooked � physically or psychologically dependent 

• Horse � heroin 

• Joint � cannabis cigarette

• Junkie � drug taker/drug addict, usually to heroin

• Kicking � to abandon a drug habit

• Leb � cannabis resin, allegedly from the Lebanon

• Mainline � to inject drugs intravenously

• Mickey Finn � various cocktails of drugs and alcohol

• Microdot � tiny tablet containing LSD

• Molly � methadone 

• Monkey � morphine 

• Moroccan � cannabis resin allegedly from Morocco

• Nicked � arrested 

• OD � overdose

• Out of it � feeling strongly the effects of heroin or other drugs

• Phy � Physeptone (brand name for methadone)

• Poppers � Alkyl Nitrites including Amyl and Butyl 

• Pot � cannabis 

• Pusher � dealer of drugs

• Reefer � cannabis cigarette

• Rehab � residential rehabilitation house for drug misusers

• Resin � cannabis 

• Rip off � a con, swindle or bad deal in the drugs world

• Roach � home-made filter for cannabis cigarette, usually small piece of rolled up cardboard 

• Rocks � heroin, also cocaine 

• Rush � immediate pleasurable effect from an injection

• Score � buy drugs 

• Script � prescription 

• Shit � cannabis or heroin (depending on local slang)

• Shooting gallery � place for communal injection

• Shoot up � inject drugs

• Skag � heroin 

• Skin Popping � subcutaneous injection or intra dermal, i.e. injecting under the skin 

• Skins � cigarette papers 

• Smack � heroin 

• Snort � to sniff drugs, i.e. to inhale through the nose 

• Snow � cocaine 

• Snowball � injection cocktail of heroin and cocaine

• Speedball � injection cocktail of heroin and amphetamine

• Speedbomb � wrap of amphetamine taken with liquid

• Speed � amphetamine

• Spike � hypodermic needle

• Spliff � cannabis cigarette

• Stash � to hide, also reserve stock of drugs

• Stoned � under the influence of drugs

• Strung Out � suffering from the effects of heroin withdrawal

• Tab � tablet, particularly LSD

• Take a trip � take LSD

• Tea � cannabis 

• Toke � to smoke cannabis

• Track marks � scars left by continuous/regular injections of drugs

• Trip � effects of LSD

• Turn on � injecting heroin(fix)

• Upper � amphetamine or other member of the stimulant group of drugs

• User � someone who uses drugs, usually taken to mean heroin

• Using � taking drugs, usually heroin

• Virus � reference to HIV

• Wash up � preparing cocaine into crack 

• Weed � cannabis 

• White stuff � white powder substances such as cocaine or morphine 

• Wired � under the influence of drugs

• Works � syringe 

• Wrap � small fold of drugs, usually heroin

• XTC � ecstasy (MDMA)

• Yokes � ecstasy tablets

• Yeago  �  - cocaine   

• Zopiclone � - refers to zimmo’s  prescribed or street tablets