Green’s Dictionary of Slang

a mixture of hashish/marijuana and cocaine, made into a cigarette when rolled in a tobacco leaf, taken from the wrapper of a Phillies Blunt cigar.

2002

‘Is The Source Brand No Longer In Demand’ on UrbanExposé 🌐 They gave him a 40, a coke blunt, and let him squeeze the ass of the local chicken... he was hooked.

(drugs) a non-existent insect which a cocaine addict believes is crawling on their skin.

2010		K. Richards Life 397: He was into coke bugs [...] People had been calling him mad for weeks because he was conviced that he was infected by bugs.
2013		J. Stahl Happy Mutant Baby Pills 64: On cocaine they crawl back and burrow under your skin. Coke bugs!

(US drugs) an inability to achieve an erection caused by an excess of cocaine.

2025

C. Hiaasen Fever Beach 184: ‘You’re too trashed to get the job done, erection-wise [...] You’ve got coke dick, dude’.

(Aus. drugs) a cocaine dealer.

1932

Sun. Mail (Brisbane) 13 Nov. 20/7: Cocaine peddlers are termed ‘angie-droppers’ amongst the elect, or less frequently ‘coke-droppers’ .

a cocaine addict or user.

1949

J. Archibald ‘Dying to See Willie’ in Popular Detective Mar. 🌐 Fats McGlone on the radio wouldn’t swallow that coke-eater’s dream.

(drugs) a cocaine user.

1888		S.F. Examiner 13 May 11/7: [headline] dope and coke fiends / The Lost Wretches Who Cannot Live Without Morphine or Cocaine.
1898		Paducah Sun (KY) 12 Apr. 1/7: All coke fiends will be arrested and made to tell where they procured their coke.
1907		Spokane Press (WA) 7 Aug. 2/3: Thomas [...] has become a missionary among ther ‘coke’ fiends of the Tenderloin.
1909		I.L. Nascher Wretches of Povertyville 181: Many of the opium fiends are also ‘coke’ fiends or cocaine habitues. This drug is snuffed up the nose and produces a mild stimulation, followed by intense depression.
1913		A.B. Reeve Constance Dunlap 295: ‘Why, they call him Sleighbells Charley,’ he replied, ‘a coke fiend.’ ‘Which means a cocaine fiend, I suppose?’ she queried.
1915		R. Service ‘The Co-Co Fiend’ in Ballads of a Bohemian (1978) 498: The CoCo-Fiend [...] Here’s where Heav’n begins: Cocaine! Cocaine!
1919		(con. 1900) Journal Amer. Instit. of Criminal Law and Criminology X Jan. 62–70: One can tell a hop-head by his eyes. A coke fiend is spotted by his quick turns and active movements. A morphinist has a brittle complexion. A smoker has a yellowish tinge.
1924		Truth (Brisbane) 22 June 12/5: ‘[T]he doper is forced to increase the dose constantly,-until only the pure crystals, termed by the ‘coke’ fiends ‘snow,’ will satisfy’.
1926		N. Lucas London and its Criminals 254: The cocaine habit is spreading, a peculiar characteristic of the ‘coke’ fiend being an intense anxiety to pass on the vice.
1949		Monteleone Criminal Sl. (rev. edn).
1959		J.E. Schmidt Narcotics Lingo and Lore.
1997		Mad mag. Jan. 37: You’re buying them [i.e. empty ideas] like coke fiends buy tissues.
2003		T. Dorsey Stingray Shuffle 133: The legitimate customers began mixing with the coke fiends in the book line.

(drugs) a regular usual of cocaine.

1995		(con. 1985–90) P. Bourjois In Search of Respect 67: Instead of coke freaks, crackheads, and heroin junkies [...] it was alcoholics who were harassing patrons.
2005		A. Lovejoy Acid Alex 212: The Jesus Coke Freak is here too [...] doing eight to ten for cocaine.

(drugs) a regular cocaine user; also as adj.; thus coke-headed adj.

1923		N. Anderson Hobo 67: Not infrequently ‘coke heads’ or ‘snow-birds’ are found among the hobo workers.
1929		Clarence ‘Pine Top’ Smith ‘Big Boy, they Can’t Do That’ 🎵 When I run and get clipped, by a coke-headed dip, / At the time you ain’t got no dough.
1931		M. Harris ‘Facing the Mob’ in Gangland Stories Feb. 🌐 It goes down damn hard to have every cheap mobsman in town razzing us for having a boss, that’ll let some coke-headed broad make him jump through a hoop.
1933		‘Goat’ Laven Rough Stuff 146: It is known that a bunch of insane coke-heads and drug-users have inflicted brutal punishment.
1949		Monteleone Criminal Sl. (rev. edn).
1953		‘John Monahan’ [W.R. Burnett] Big Stan 122: ‘I’d like to see you in that tank with a bunch of filthy, stinking drunks and cokeheads. Don’t those guys ever wash?’.
1969		R.R. Lingeman Drugs from A to Z (1970).
1977		E. Torres Q&A 98: I don’t want these two coke heads near me.
1986		C. Stroud Close Pursuit (1988) 18: Don’t for Christ’s sake hire midgets, or twits, or cokeheads, or petty criminals.
1991		R.G. Barratt ‘Racist Yes, Sexist Fine’ in What Do You Reckon (1997) [ebook] Smackies gotta have a hit of heroin, cokeheads gotta have a line.
1997		L. Pettiway Workin’ It 93: People just sit around either nodding or bugging, you know, if they’re coke heads.
1998		(con. 1986) G. Pelecanos Sweet Forever 32: Clay watched Karras go back and talk to his cokehead girl.
1999		K. Sampson Powder 155: He was an unlikely cokehead, but he had a mission to be down with whatever was going on.
2004		C. Brookmyre Be My Enemy 98: That nasty cokehead brother of his.
2007		P. Corris Appeal Denied 150: ‘Gregory’s a close-to-the-edge cokehead’.
2011		J.J. Connolly Viva La Madness 41: Cokeheads are liabilities [...] Dangerous! Madheads!
2011		G. Hayward Corruption Officer [ebk] cap. 31: Word is that she is a cokehead and is giving up head and ass for cash.
2015		L. McInerney Glorious Heresies 221: Shakespeare made a cokehead suck his piss from a handful of bog roll.
2018		I. Welsh Dead Man’s Trousers 120: Where is that cokehead bum N-Sign.
2021		Breen & Conlon Hitmen 100: Eric and Keith [...] were cokeheads.

(drugs) paranoid hallucinogenic delusions occasioned by an excessive/long-term use of cocaine.

1959

W. Burroughs Naked Lunch (1968) 36: One morning you wake up and take a speed ball and feel black bugs under your skin. 1890 cops with black moustaches block the doors [...] Junkies march through the room singing the Moslem Funeral Song [...] It’s the coke horrors.

(drugs) a cocaine user.

1936		R. Chandler ‘Goldfish’ in Red Wind (1946) 149: He’s a coke-hound and he talks in his sleep.
2000		www.washingtonfreepress.org Jan.–Feb. #43 🌐 Following are excerpts from an unpublished interview between Irvine Welsh’s American stepbrother, Irwin, and Presidential candidate/accused cokehound George W. Bush, Jr.
2006		www.thrillingdetective.com 🌐 Any fan of the mystery genre owes the old cokehound [i.e. Sherlock Holmes] a debt of gratitude.

(drugs) the nail of a single finger that is allowed to grow disproportionately long and which can thus be used to scoop up cocaine for inhalation.

2021

T. Pluck Boy from County Hell 273: Like she wouldn’t hear from working girls about why their man had a stub where his coke nail used to be?

(US drugs) a place where one buys cocaine.

1942		Berrey & Van den Bark Amer. Thes. Sl.
1953		Anslinger & Tompkins Traffic In Narcotics 307: coke-oven. A place where cocaine is sold.
1975		Hardy & Cull Drug Lang. and Lore.

(drugs) the after-effects of a cocaine binge; also attrib.

1998		(con. 1986) G. Pelecanos Sweet Forever 108: A sick, pale rider with an awful case of cokeover depression.
2001		A. Sher Beside Myself 168: By the time I reached home I had a streaming nose and another of those thunderous depressions, cocaine’s version of a hangover – I called it a coke-over.

(drugs) a party at which the principal aim is to consume cocaine.

1920		F. Williams Hop-Heads 66: There’s always a coke party on down here after 1 and 2 in the morning.
1931		Irwin Amer. Tramp and Und. Sl. 52: Coke Party. – A gathering at which cocaine or some other drug furnishes the stimulation usually found in liquor.

a regular cocaine user.

1999

Guardian Weekend 19 June 25: A 20-stone, self-confessed cokeslut.

(US police/Und.) the Narcotics Squad.

1915

Marion Star (OH) 3 Apr. 17/1: The Narcotics Squad [...] the ‘Coke Squad’ as it is best known.

(US black) the ‘evil eye’, a deliberately aggressive and unpleasant look.

1980		E. Folb Runnin’ Down Some Lines 108: The evil eye, or the coke stare.
1992		R.C. Cruz Straight Outta Compton 14: Clive’s daddy shouted. he sent Clive a coke stare.

(drugs) sweat that indicates an excessive use of cocaine.

1992		G.P. Pelecanos Firing Offense 1: A poster of the mayor, a smiling portrait in debauchery, was taped to the window [...] The coke sweat had been dutifully airbrushed from the mayor's forehead.
2021		A. Coombs Missing Husband [ebook] Traces of it [i.e. cocaine] frosted his nostrils, his eyes were huge and she could smell the rank coke sweat on his body.

(US prison) cocaine dissolved in water.

1934

V.G. Burns Female Convict (1960) 131: She had been drinking ‘cokewater’ (cocaine dissolved in water) for several days.

(drugs) to inhale cocaine; thus coke-blower, a cocaine sniffer.

1924		G. Henderson Keys to Crookdom 403: Drug addict [...] coke-blower.
1928		(con. 1900s) J. Callahan Man’s Grim Justice 25: It was in reform school that I first heard of drug users, ‘coke blowers,’ [...] the boys who sniffed cocaine.
1949		Monteleone Criminal Sl. (rev. edn).
1953		Anslinger & Tompkins Traffic In Narcotics 306: blow coke, blow snow. To take cocaine by sniffing it up the nostrils.
1959		J.E. Schmidt Narcotics Lingo and Lore.
1977		B. Davidson Collura (1978) 182: Hey, man, you wanna blow some coke while we doin’ business.
2001		ONDCP Street Terms 3: Blow coke — To inhale cocaine.

1. (drugs) to take cocaine.

1930		R. Whitfield Green Ice (1988) 29: Red’s been coking up.
1997		G. Sikes 8 Ball Chicks (1998) 130: There was a BC party, everyone coked up, and he was sitting on the floor with this BC chick.

2. to consume any drug.

1976

M. Braly False Starts 278: You coke up on those devil drugs.