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, 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, dipsomaniac, drinker, drunk, drunkard, drunken, heavy drinker, inebriate, problem drinker, tippler, spirituous |
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, caramelyzed, crossfaded (when also drunk), crunched, crunk (when also drunk), dankrupt, faded, flame-broiled, geeked, high, high as a kite, hurt, in like Flint, keyed, krunked, lifted, lit, lit up, low, out of one’s element, pot-head, red, ripped, sketch, skunt, sloppy, smoked, stoned, strunk, stuck, tall, zoned |
Paraphernalia |
Blunt (cigar stuffed with marijuana), bowl, bong, bubbler, doob, doober, doobie, fatty, glass, gravity bong, hogger, J, jay, joint (wrapping paper and marijuana), left-handed cigarette, one-hitter, PAX, percolator, piece, pipe, rig, roach, spiff, spliff, vape, water pipe |
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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, beamer, binger, buffer, chaser, closet baser, cluck, cracker jack, dope fiend, dynamiter, 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, pizzie, pookie, rock pipe, stem, straight shooter, whistle |
Heroin
Users |
Channel swimmer, chipper (occasional user), cotton shooter, dinosaurs (users in their 40s or 50s), 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 |
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Crystal Methamphetamine
Users |
Cranker, cranker man, geeker, jib head, kingsford, 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 d**k, glass rose, jib whistle, monkey crusher, oil burner, peezo, pelo, pipa, pookie, shwok, twizzal stick |
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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 |
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