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Heroin Street Slang
What are current heroin street slang terms? Because street slang is always changing and evolving as to elude parents and law enforcement it can be difficult to pin down each and every term. Here we have done our best to compile the most relevant and up-to-date list of heroin street slang.
When it comes to drugs like heroin, the more you know about what your child does and who they hang out with, the more likely you'll be able to spot when they're heading down the wrong path. They may even be talking about using heroin right in front of you through heroin street slang.
It may be hard to imagine that your child would ever try heroin or other drugs, but don't be fooled. Statistics show that half of teens have tried some sort of illicit drug by the time they finish high school. Even more shocking is that almost 40 percent of teens don't perceive any major risk with trying heroin once or twice a week, and over 14 percent say it would be easy for them to find heroin if they wanted to.
So, what is heroin? Heroin usually appears as a white or brown powder. It is typically injected, but more and more users are turning to snorting, smoking or swallowing heroin because they falsely believe this is safer than using needles. A heroin addict is addicted to the drug both mentally and physically. The user not only craves the drug to feel good, but needs it to avoid withdrawal. This becomes a double edged sword for those individuals who try to end their dependence to the drug.
Here are the common heroin street slang terms and abbreviations:
| A-bomb | marijuana and heroin smoked in cigarette |
| a la canona | abrupt ("cold turkey") withdrawal from heroin |
| baby | minor heroin habit |
| belly habit | heroin addiction resulting in stomach symptoms |
| black tar heroin | potent heroin from Mexico |
| blue velvet | combination of elixir terpin hydrate with codeine and tripelennamine (as weak heroin substitute) |
| blue velvet | combination of paregoric and PBZ (pyribenzamine or tripelennamine) used as a weak heroin substitute |
| brother | heroin |
| chasing the dragon | inhaling vapors of heroin or cocaine heated on tin foil |
| chicken shit habit | small heroin habit, usually not addicted |
| chick | heroin |
| China white | very pure form of heroin, alternately a fentanyl analog used as a heroin substitute |
| cotton shooter | desperate addict who injects the residue from cotton used to filter heroin |
| daytime | high on drugs, especially heroin |
| dip and dab | experiment, especially with heroin |
| do up | inject a drug, especially heroin |
| evening | onset of heroin withdrawal (start of night time) |
| firing the ack ack gun | technique for smoking heroin by dipping tip of a tobacco cigarette in heroin (Asian slang) |
| floating | high on a drug, especially heroin |
| fluff | filtering heroin or cocaine through cloth (often a stocking) to increase its apparent bulk |
| goods | any drug, especially heroin |
| good sick | nausea following heroin injection |
| Harry Jones | heroin |
| heavy stuff | heroin or cocaine |
| Judas | heroin (a friend that betrays you) |
| King Kong | major heroin habit |
| man | heroin; drug dealer; the police |
| Mister Brownstone | hashish, brown heroin |
| monkey on one's back | addiction to a drug, especially heroin or opium |
| night time | heroin withdrawal |
| Nixon | low potency heroin |
| partying | using a drug, especially heroin; getting drunk |
| people, the | high level heroin distributors |
| pineapple | heroin and Ritalin or amphetamine |
| poison people | heroin addicts |
| poor man's speedball | heroin and methamphetamine combo |
| red chicken | Chinese heroin |
| schmack | heroin |
| schmeck | heroin |
| schmecker | heroin user |
| score | price of a bundle of drugs, especially heroin |
| used as a heroin substitute | |
| shit | heroin |
| sleepwalker | heroin addict |
| speedball | injection of heroin and cocaine mixture |
| speedball artist | one who injects heroin and cocaine mixture |
| super flu | heroin withdrawal symptoms |
| take off artists | heroin addicts who rob other addicts to get drugs |
| taking care of business | heroin addicts life and actions on the street |
| tapping the bags | when dealers remove small amounts of heroin from a bag before selling it, thus short weighting the buyer |
| tecata | heroin |
| ten cent pistol | heroin dose laced with poison |
| T's and Blues | Talwin (pentazocine) and PBZ (pyribenzamine) used as a heroin substitute |
| T's and B's | Talwin (pentazocine) and PBZ (pyribenzamine) used as a heroin substitute |
| tease and bees | Talwin (pentazocine) and PBZ (pyribenzamine) used as a heroin substitute |
| tease and blues | Talwin (pentazocine) and PBZ (pyribenzamine) used as a heroin substitute |
| tease and pies | Talwin (pentazocine) and PBZ (pyribenzamine) used as a heroin substitute |
| teddies and bettys | Talwin (pentazocine) and PBZ (pyribenzamine) used as a heroin substitute |
| tops and bottoms | Talwin (pentazocine) and PBZ (pyribenzamine) used as a heroin substitute |
| tricycles and bicycles | Talwin (pentazocine) and PBZ (pyribenzamine) used as a heroin substitute |
| wired | intoxicated on amphetamines; addicted to heroin |
| AIP | heroin from Afghanistan, Iran, & Pakistan |
| Antifreeze | heroin |
| Aries | heroin |
| Atom bomb | marijuana and heroin |
| Aunt Hazel | heroin |
| Back to back | smoking crack after injecting heroin or heroin used after smoking crack |
| Bad bundle | inferior quality heroin |
| Bad seed | peyote; heroin; marijuana |
| Balloon | heroin supplier |
| Ballot | heroin |
| Belushi | cocaine and heroin |
| Big bag | heroin |
| Big H | heroin |
| Big Harry | heroin |
| Bindle | small packet of drug powder; heroin |
| Birdie powder | heroin; cocaine |
| Black pearl | heroin |
| Black stuff | heroin |
| Black tar | heroin |
| Blanco | heroin |
| Bomb | crack; heroin; large marijuana cigarette; |
| high potency heroin | |
| Bombido | injectable amphetamine; heroin; depressant |
| Bombita | amphetamine; heroin; depressant |
| Bombs away | heroin |
| Bonita | heroin |
| Boy | heroin |
| Bozo | heroin |
| Brick gum | heroin |
| Brown | heroin; marijuana |
| Brown crystal | heroin |
| Brown rhine | heroin |
| Brown sugar | heroin |
| Bundle | heroin |
| Butu | heroin |
| Caballo | heroin |
| Caca | heroin |
| Capital H | heroin |
| Caps | heroin; psilocybin/psilocin |
| Carga | heroin |
| Carne | heroin |
| Channel swimmer | one who injects heroin |
| Charley | heroin |
| Chasing the dragon | crack and heroin |
| Chasing the tiger | to smoke heroin |
| Chicle | heroin |
| Chieva | heroin |
| China cat | high potency heroin |
| Chinese red | heroin |
| Chip | heroin |
| Chucks | hunger following withdrawal from heroin |
| Cigarette paper | packet of heroin |
| Climax | crack; isobutyl nitrite; heroin |
| 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 |
| Cotics | heroin |
| Cotton brothers | cocaine, heroin and morphine |
| Courage pills | heroin; depressant |
| Crap/crop | low quality heroin |
| Crown crap | heroin |
| Cura | heroin |
| Cut-deck | heroin mixed with powdered milk |
| Dead on arrival | heroin |
| Deck | 1 to 15 grams of heroin, also known as a bag; |
| Deuce | $2 worth of drugs; heroin |
| Dime's worth | amount of heroin to cause death |
| Dirt | heroin |
| Dog food | heroin |
| Dogie | heroin |
| Doogie/doojee/dugie | heroin |
| Dooley | heroin |
| Dope | heroin; marijuana; any other drug |
| Dreck | heroin |
| Duji | heroin |
| Dust | heroin; cocaine; PCP; marijuana mixed with various chemicals |
| Dusting | adding PCP, heroin, or another drug to marijuana |
| Dynamite | heroin and cocaine |
| Dyno | heroin |
| Dyno-pure | heroin |
| Eightball | crack and heroin |
| Eighth | heroin |
| El diablito | marijuana, cocaine, heroin and PCP |
| El diablo | marijuana, cocaine and heroin |
| Estuffa | heroin |
| Ferry dust | heroin |
| Flamethrowers | cigarette laced with cocaine and heroin |
| Flea powder | low purity heroin |
| Foo foo stuff | heroin; cocaine |
| Foolish powder | heroin; cocaine |
| Frisco special | cocaine, heroin and LSD |
| Frisco speedball | cocaine, heroin and LSD |
| Galloping horse | heroin |
| Gamot | heroin |
| Gato | heroin |
| George smack | heroin |
| Girl | cocaine; crack; heroin |
| Give wings | inject someone or teach someone to inject heroin |
| Glacines | heroin |
| Golden girl | heroin |
| Golpe | heroin |
| Goma | opium; black tar heroin |
| Good and plenty | heroin |
| Good H | heroin |
| Goofball | cocaine and heroin; depressant |
| Gravy | to inject a drug; heroin |
| H | heroin |
| H & C | heroin and cocaine |
| 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 | opium; heroin |
| Harry | heroin |
| Hazel | heroin |
| Heaven dust | heroin; cocaine |
| Helen | heroin |
| Hell dust | heroin |
| Henry | heroin |
| Hero | heroin |
| Hero of the underworld | heroin |
| Heroina | heroin |
| Herone | heroin |
| Hessle | heroin |
| Him | heroin |
| Hombre | heroin |
| Hong-yen | heroin in pill form |
| Horning | heroin; to inhale cocaine |
| Horse | heroin |
| Hot dope | heroin |
| Hot heroin | poisoned to give to a police informant |
| HRN | heroin |
| Hype | heroin addict; an addict |
| Isda | heroin |
| Jee gee | heroin |
| Jive | heroin; marijuana; drugs |
| Jive doo jee | heroin |
| Jojee | heroin |
| Jolly pop | casual user of heroin |
| Jones | heroin |
| Joy flakes | heroin |
| Joy powder | heroin; cocaine |
| Junk | cocaine; heroin |
| Kabayo | heroin |
| Karachi | heroin |
| LBJ | LSD; PCP; heroin |
| Lemonade | heroin; poor quality drugs |
| Little bomb | amphetamine; heroin; depressant |
| Load | 25 bags of heroin |
| Matsakow | heroin |
| Mayo | cocaine; heroin |
| Mexican brown | heroin; marijuana |
| Mexican horse | heroin |
| Mexican mud | heroin |
| Mojo | cocaine; heroin |
| Moonrock | crack and heroin |
| Morotgara | heroin |
| Mortal combat | high potency heroin |
| Mud | opium; heroin |
| Murder one | heroin and cocaine |
| 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 | heroin |
| Nose drops | liquified heroin |
| Number 3 | cocaine, heroin |
| Number 4 | heroin |
| Number 8 | heroin |
| Ogoy | heroin |
| Oil | heroin, PCP |
| Old Steve | heroin |
| P-dope | 20-30% pure heroin |
| P-funk | heroin; crack and PCP |
| Pack | heroin; marijuana |
| Pangonadalot | heroin |
| Paper boy | heroin peddler |
| Parachute | crack and PCP smoked; heroin |
| Peg | heroin |
| Perfect High | heroin |
| Poison | heroin; fentanyl |
| Polvo | heroin; PCP |
| Poppy | heroin |
| Powder | heroin; amphetamine |
| Primos | cigarettes laced with cocaine and heroin |
| Pulborn | heroin |
| Pure | heroin |
| Quill | methamphetamine; heroin; cocaine |
| Racehorse charlie | cocaine; heroin |
| Ragweed | inferior quality marijuana; heroin |
| Rambo | heroin |
| Rane | cocaine; heroin |
| Ready rock | cocaine; crack; heroin |
| Red chicken | heroin |
| Red eagle | heroin |
| Reindeer dust | heroin |
| Rhine | heroin |
| Sack | heroin |
| Salt | heroin |
| Sandwich | two layers of cocaine with a layer of heroin |
| Scag | heroin |
| Scat | heroin |
| Scate | heroin |
| Scott | heroin |
| Shmeck/schmeek | heroin |
| Skid | heroin |
| Sleeper | heroin; depressant |
| Slime | heroin |
| Smack | heroin |
| Smoke | heroin and crack; crack; marijuana |
| Smoking gun | heroin and cocaine |
| Snow | cocaine; heroin; amphetamine |
| Snowball | cocaine and heroin |
| Speedball | heroin and cocaine; amphetamine |
| Spider blue | heroin |
| Spoon | 1/16 ounce of heroin;paraphernalia used to prepare heroin for injection |
| Stuff | heroin |
| Sugar | cocaine; LSD; heroin |
| Sweet Jesus | heroin |
| Sweet stuff | heroin; cocaine |
| T.N.T. | heroin; fentanyl |
| Tar | opium; heroin |
| Taste | heroin; small sample of drugs |
| Tecate | heroin |
| Tecatos | Hispanic heroin addicts |
| The beast | heroin |
| The witch | heroin |
| Thing | heroin; cocaine; main drug interest at the moment |
| Tootsie roll | heroin |
| Whack | PCP and heroin |
| White boy | heroin |
| White girl | cocaine; heroin |
| White junk | heroin |
| White lady | cocaine; heroin |
| White nurse | heroin |
| White stuff | heroin |
| Whiz bang | cocaine and heroin |
| Wings | heroin; cocaine |
| Witch | heroin; cocaine |
| Witch hazel | heroin |
| Z | 1 ounce of heroin |
| red rum | potent form of heroin (murder spelled backward) |
| black tootsie roll | black tar heroin |
| white horse | Heroin |
| cheva | heroin |
| chiva | heroin |
HEROIN FACTS
- The risk of infection from heroin injections are high
- Snorting or smoking heroin requires around 10 to 15 minutes to go into full effect.
- Heroin is a highly addictive drug that is derived from morphine.
- All heroin users, not just those who inject the drug, are at risk of heroin addiction.
- Many heroin addicts have collapsed veins, due to repeated injection.
- Long term effects of heroin use are collapsed veins, infection of the heart lining and valves, abscesses, cellulites, liver disease, pulmonary complications and overdose.
- In 1998, 80% of heroin users were under the age of 26.
- Heroin addicts who share dirty needles are at a great risk for HIV/AIDS.