STREET TERM |
DEFINITION |
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Crack Cocaine |
2-for-1 sale |
A marketing scheme designed to promote and increase crack sales |
Author |
Doctor who writes illegal prescriptions |
Bag man |
Person who transports money; a person who supplies narcotics or other drugs, a pusher |
Balloon |
Heroin supplier; a penny balloon that contains narcotics |
BC bud |
Marijuana from British Columbia; synonymous with any high-grade marijuana from Canada |
Beat artist |
Person selling bogus drugs |
Beat vials |
Viles containing sham crack to cheat buyers |
Big man |
Drug supplier |
Blank |
Container of nonnarcotic powder that is sold as heroin |
Body-packer |
Individual who ingests wrapped packets of crack or cocaine to transport |
Body-stuffer |
Individual who ingests crack vials to avoid prosecution |
Boxed |
In jail |
Breakdown |
$40 of crack cocaine that can be broken down into $20 packages |
Brewery |
Place where drugs are made |
Broker |
Go between in a drug deal; heavy drug user |
Buck |
Shoot someone in the head |
Bull |
Narcotics agent or police officer |
Burn transaction |
Selling a substance as a certain drug |
Burned |
Purchase fake drugs |
Busted |
Arrested |
Candy sticks |
Marijuana cigarettes laced with powdered cocaine |
Candyman |
Drug supplier |
Cap up |
Transfer bulk form drugs to capsules |
Clips |
Rows of vials heat-sealed together |
Clocker |
Entry level crack dealers who sell drugs 24 hours a day. |
Clocking paper |
Profits from selling drugs |
Cluckers |
Middlemen who facilitate the connection between buyers and sellers |
Come up |
A person who sells drugs for money; to take a small amount of money and increase to a large amount. |
Connect |
Purchase drugs; supplier of illegal drugs |
Cook |
Drug manufacturer; mix heroin with water; heating heroin to prepare it for injection |
Cooker |
To inject a drug; person who manufactures methamphetamine |
Cooking up |
To process powdered cocaine into crack. |
Cop |
Obtain drugs |
Copping zones |
Specific areas where buyers can purchase drugs |
Crack gallery |
Place where crack is bought and sold |
Crack house |
Place where crack is used |
Crack spot |
Area where people can purchase crack; place where crack is sold, but not used |
Crankster |
Someone who uses or manufatures methamphetamine |
Cut |
Adulterate drugs |
Diamond folds |
Folded paper used to package drugs |
Dipping out |
Crack runners taking a portion of crack from vials |
Dominican knot |
The torn and knotted corner of a baggie containing drugs |
Double breasted dealing |
Dealing cocaine and heroin together |
Double up |
When a crack dealer delivers an extra rock as a marketing ploy to attract customers |
Drought |
Decrease in drug availability typically related to large law enforcement busts |
Dub |
When a crack dealer delivers an extra rock as a marketing ploy to attract customers |
Easy score |
Obtaining drugs without difficulties |
El Gallo ("rooster") |
Marijuana |
El Perico ("parrot") |
Cocaine |
Elbows |
One pound of methamphetamine |
Factory |
Place where drugs are packaged, diluted, or manufactured |
Fall |
Arrested |
Fingers |
The cut-off fingers of surgical gloves used to package drugs |
Fleece |
Counterfeit crack cocaine |
Freeze |
Cocaine; renege on a drug deal |
Gangster |
Marijuana; person who uses or manufactures methamphetamine |
Get a gift |
Obtain drugs |
Get off houses |
Private places heroin users can purchase & use heroin for a fee |
Get through |
Obtain drugs |
Giro house |
Non-bank financial institutions for businesses frequently used by drug traffickers to launder drug proceeds |
Go-between |
Intermediary between dealer and buyer |
Good go |
Proper amount of drugs for the money paid |
Gopher |
Person paid to pickup drugs |
Got it going on |
Fast sale of drugs |
Grow(s) |
Marijuana growing operations (indoor and outdoor) |
Half elbows |
1/2 pound of methamphetamine |
Hand-to-hand |
Direct delivery and payment |
Hand-to-hand man |
Transient dealers who carry small amounts of crack |
Hawkers |
Individuals who walk through a setting (nightclub) announcing the availability of a drug (typically MDMA, GHB, or LSD) |
Head shop |
Store specializing in the sale of drug paraphernalia |
Heat |
The police or narcotics officers |
Heeled |
Having plenty of money |
Hustle |
Attempt to obtain drug customers |
Hydrogrows |
Indoor marijuana growing operations |
In |
Connected with drug suppliers |
Juggle |
Sell drugs to another addict to support a habit |
Juggler |
Teen-aged street dealer |
Jumbos |
Large vials of crack sold on the streets; marijuana mixed with crack |
K-lots |
Bags of 1,000 MDMA pills |
Kester plant |
Drugs hidden in the rectum |
Kissing |
The exchange of plastic wrapped rocks (crack) by kissing or through mouth to mouth transfer |
La Chiva ("goat") |
Heroin |
Lettuce |
Money |
Macaroni and Cheese |
$5 pack of marijuana and a dime bag of cocaine |
Make up |
Need to find more drugs |
Merchandise |
Drugs |
Mule |
Carrier of drugs |
Nailed |
Arrested |
On ice |
In jail |
One on one house |
Where cocaine and heroin can be purchased |
One plus one sales |
Selling cocaine and heroin together |
One-stop shop |
Place where more than one drug is sold |
Paper boy |
Heroin peddler |
Papers |
Folded paper used to package drugs |
Peddlar |
Drug supplier |
Perlas (Spanish) |
Street dealer (heroin) |
Pill houses |
Residences where pills are illicitly sold |
Pill ladies |
Female senior citizens who sell OxyContin |
Point |
A needle |
Pony packs |
Folded paper used to package drugs |
Pumping |
Selling crack |
Push |
Sell drugs |
Push shorts |
To cheat; sell short amounts |
Pusher |
Metal hanger or umbrella rod used to scrape residue out of crack stems; one who sells drugs |
Rap |
Criminally charged; to talk with someone |
Raspberry |
Female who trades sex for crack or money to buy crack |
Rider |
5 kilograms of heroin sometimes provided at no cost per 100 kilograms of cocaine imported from Colombia |
Rock house |
Place where crack is sold and smoked |
Rock star |
Female who trades sex for crack or money to buy crack; a person who uses rock cocaine |
Rollers |
Police |
Runners |
People who sell drugs for others; adolescents who act as liaisons between sellers and buyers |
Sam |
Federal narcotics agent |
Sancocho (Spanish) |
To steal |
Satch |
Papers, letter, cards, clothing, etc., saturated with drug solution (Used to smuggle drugs into prisons or hospitals) |
Score |
Purchase drugs |
Scratch |
Money |
Server |
Crack dealer |
Set |
Place where drugs are sold; Talwin and ritalin combination is injected and produces an effect similar to the effect of heroin mixed with cocaine. |
Shoppers |
Individuals who buy drugs for others, sometimes keeping some of the drug for themselves |
Stash areas |
Drug storage and distribution areas |
Steerer |
Person who directs customers to spots for buying crack; worker who directs buyers to where drugs are sold |
Step on |
Dilute drugs |
Strawberry |
LSD; female who trades sex for crack or money to buy crack |
Swallower |
An individual used as a drug courier |
Taste |
Heroin; small sample of drugs |
Taxing |
Price paid to enter a crackhouse; charging more per vial depending on race of customer or if not a regular customer |
Tester |
Individual who is given a drug early in the day by a dealer and then spreads the word about the drug throughout the rest of the day |
Thoroughbred |
Drug dealer who sells pure narcotics |
Toss up |
Crack Cocaine; female who trades sex for crack or money to buy crack |
Tout |
Person who introduces buyers to sellers |
Touter |
Person who stands on the street and advertises a drug |
Trapped vehicles |
Vehicles with secret compartments used to conceal drugs |
Travel agent |
LSD supplier |
Trey |
Small rock of crack cocaine |
Triple folds |
Folded paper used to package drugs |
Turf |
Place where drugs are sold |
Uncle |
Federal agents |
Wasted |
Under the influence of drugs; murdered |
Whites |
Amphetamine; folded paper used to package drugs |
Working |
Selling crack |
Zoomer |
Individual who sells fake crack and then flees |