Drug And Alcohol Slang Terms
Alcohol and popular drugs have accrued numerous slang terms throughout their use. The more popular the substance, the more slang is associated with it.
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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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