Drug And Alcohol Slang Terms

General Drug Slang

This list covers slang terms associated with the use of popular drugs and alcohol; street names of these 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, substance use disorder
Withdrawal	Around the turn (after a period of withdrawal), cold turkey (completely stopping drug use), clucking, detox, DT’s, jonesing, shakes, super-flu

Alcohol Slang

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

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

Fentanyl Slang

Fentanyl Mixed With Other Drugs	Birria (Fentanyl and Heroin), Chiva Loca (Fentanyl and 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

Ecstacy Slang

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

Cocaine

Slang For Users	Boogahead, cokehead, coke hound, cokey, cokie, hardliner, snowblower, snow bird, snow bunny
Using Cocaine	Bipping (snorting coke 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

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

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, shoot up

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

Codeine Slang

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.

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