Drug And Alcohol Slang Terms

General Drug Slang

Today, hundreds of slang terms and abbreviations exist for referencing drugs and their use. These terms can be found in pop culture as well as in circles where drug use is common. It can be helpful for parents and loved ones to be familiar with these terms if they think a child, family member, or friend is struggling with drug misuse or a substance use disorder. Being able to recognize these slang terms can help lead to timely intervention and treatment.

This list covers slang terms associated with the use of popular drugs and alcohol; street names of drugs will not be included on this list unless they also describe other aspects of use.

Person Who Uses Drugs Heavily	Addict, burnout, dopehead, doper, druggie, fiend, hophead, junkie, stoner, user, zombie
Person Who Sells Drugs Illegally	Cooker, dealer, dope peddler, dummy man, hookup, mad hatter, middleman, mule, pill lady, plug, potrepreneur, pump, pusher, source
Addiction	Bag, bent, dependence, hang-up, hook(ed), jones(ing), kick, monkey on your back, strung out
Withdrawal	Around the turn (after a period of withdrawal), cold turkey (completely stopping drug use), clucking, detox, DT’s, jonesing, shakes, super-flu

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Alcohol

Someone Who Drinks To Excess	Alcoholic, boozer, drinker, drunk, drunkard, drunken, heavy drinker, inebriate, problem drinker
Under The Influence	Addled, badgered, bashed, besotted, bibulous, blasted, blind, blitzed, blotto, bombed, boozy, canned, cockeyed, crocked, drunken, fried, gassed, hammered, high, impaired, inebriate, intoxicated, juiced, lit, lit up, loaded, looped, oiled, pickled, pie-eyed, pished, pissed, plastered, potted, ripped, sloshed, smashed, sottish, soused, sozzled, squiffy, stewed, stiff, stinking, stoned, tanked, tiddly, tight, tipsy, wasted, wet, wiped out, zonked
Amounts	Chaser, double, dram, dumpy, half, measure, nip, pint, shot, stubby, tallboy, tumbler

Benzodiazepines

Slang For Effects	Downers, tranks, upjohns (Xanax)
Amounts	Bars, xanbars, bicycle handlebars, footballs, ladders, planks

Cocaine

Slang For Users	Boogahead, cokehead, coke hound, cokey, cokie, hardliner, snowblower, snow bird, snow bunny
Using Cocaine	Bipping (snorting coke and heroin), speedball  (cocaine and heroin), blow blue, blow coke, crisscrossing (snorting coke and heroin), do a line, do a rail, freebase, go skiing, hit a wack, hitting the slopes, ride the rails, snort
Amounts	Bump, brick, hit, key bump, eightball, kilo, line, rail

Codeine

Using Codeine	Captain cody, dirty sprite, lean, purple dranks, purple tonic, purpp, schoolboy, sip-sip, sizzurp, syrup, Texas tea
Under The Influence	Dexing, faded, leaning, robotripping, slumped, tussin.

Crack Cocaine

Slang For Users	Base head, binger, chaser, closet baser, cluck, cracker jack, dope fiend, garbage head, geeker, gick monster, klingon, nickelonians, pipero, puller, toucher
Using Crack	Basing, blast, chasing, freebasing
Paraphernalia	Crack pipe, crystal ship, devil’s d**k, glass d**k, pookie, rock pipe, stem, straight shooter, whistle

Crystal Methamphetamine

Users	Cranker, cranker man, geeker, jibhead, meth head, meth maggot, meth monster, smack head, speed freak, tweaker
Using Meth	Blow clouds, clouds, smokin rain, tweaking, twirling
Paraphernalia	Booger pipe, bowlo, bubble, chalet, glass rose, jib whistle, monkey crusher, oil burner, peezo, pelo, pipa, pookie, shwok, twizzal stick

Ecstacy

Slang For Users	Cuddle puddle (multiple users), e-puddle (multiple users), peeper, pill face, thizz face
Under The Influence	Blown up, buzzed, dosed, faced, faced out, flipping, loved up, peaking, rolling, roll balls, smacked, spun

Fentanyl

Fentanyl Mixed With Other Drugs	Birria (fentanyl mixed with heroin), chiva loca (fentanyl mixed with heroin), facebook (fentanyl and heroin in pill form), dirty fentanyl (fentanyl and cocaine), takeover (fentanyl and cocaine)
Using Fentanyl	Apache, blues, blue diamond, china girl, china white, fent, friend, fuf, gray death, lollipop, jackpot, murder 8, white girl

GHB

Slang For Effects	Blowout, organic quaalude, sleep, g-riffic
Mnemonic Slang	Georgia home boy, great hormones at bedtime, grievous bodily harm, growth hormone booster

Heroin

Users	Channel swimmer, chipper (occasional user), cotton shooter, hype, jolly popper (occasional user), junkie, junker, poison people, schmecker, sleepwalker
Using Heroin	Blow, chase the dragon, cooking (preparing heroin for injection), cook down, crangbustin (chewing tobacco with heroin), getting well, give wings (teach someone to use), gravy, jack up, shoot, shooting up

Inhalants

Slang For Effects	Duster, snappers, poppers, air blast, bullet, bullet bolt, whiteout, moon blast, rush
Slang For Using	Huffing, huffer, bagging, sniffing

Ketamine

Slang For Effects	Blind squid, cat valium; jet, wobble, wonky, super acid, baby food, god
Common K Names	K-land, k-hole, special k, k, kit kat, vitamin k, Calvin Klein (when mixed with cocaine)

LSD

Slang For Effects	Haze, california sunshine, white lightning, mellow yellow
Amounts	Tabs, trips, microdots, microdose (using small amounts), dots, blotter, cubes

Marijuana

Slang For Users	Airhead, blazer, bong rat, dankhead, doper, druggie, ent, hash head, herbalist, herbivore, kieffer, pothead, smoker, stoner, stonette, toker, weedhead
Under The Influence	Baked, blazed, blitzed, blown, blown out, blunted, bread, burned, caned, crossfaded (when also drunk), crunched, crunk (when also drunk), dankrupt, faded, flame-broiled, geeked, high, high as a kite, keyed, krunked, lifted, lit, lit up, ripped, sloppy, smoked, stoned, zoned
Paraphernalia	Blunt (cigar stuffed with marijuana), bowl, bong, bubbler, doobie, fatty, gravity bong, J, jay, joint (wrapping paper and marijuana), left-handed cigarette, one-hitter, percolator, piece, pipe, rig, roach, spliff, vape, water pipe

PCP (Phencyclidine)

Users	Dipper head, duster, dusthead, sherm head
Using PCP	Bust a heemi, dusting, getting wet, ghost busting, space basing (pcp and crack cocaine), space blasting (pcp and crack cocaine)
Under The Influence	Dusted, gacked out, stained on the hardware, wet

Psilocybin Mushrooms

Slang For Effects	Boom, boomers, magic mushrooms, simple simon
Amount	Cap(s), shroom, buttons, mushies

Synthetic Marijuana

Slang For Effects	Amnesia, bizarro, blaze, bliss, brain freeze, buzz haze, cloud 10, dr. feel good, green peace, geeked, geeked up, sky high, snake bite, potpourri, herbal incense
Amount	Bag, baggie

While it can be scary to watch your child or loved one struggle with substance abuse, many effective treatment options are available. Inpatient and outpatient programs exist to help get your loved one in recovery and back on track. Contact a treatment provider today; they can help answer your rehab-related questions and discuss the available treatment options.