crack n.7
1. (drugs) a purified and potent form of cocaine; a mixture of cocaine, baking powder and water, which is smoked rather than sniffed; crack is heated and the resultant pellets are smoked through a small glass pipe.
![[US]](/static/img/flags/us.png "United States") | N.Y. Post 8 Aug. 21: A powerful new form of cocaine – which produces the effects of ‘freebasing’ without its fiery risks – was discovered last night during a police raid on a Bronx narcotics den. ‘This stuff is safer to handle, but just as deadly in its addictive qualities,’ Bronx Narcotics Unit Lt. John Creegan said of the new cocaine product called ‘crack.’ ‘It can be smoked in a pipe and gives the same effect as freebasing without going through the old process of purifying it with ether and alcohol where you run the risk of setting yourself on fire.’. | |
| Crackhouse 9: Pieces of this mass called ‘base’ or ‘freebase,’ are then chipped off. The substance makes a crackling sound when it is smoked, which accounts for its other name [...] crack is often precooked and mixed with other, cheaper chemicals. | |
![[Aus]](/static/img/flags/aus.png "Australia") | Crosskill [ebook] The yuppies [...] used coke, the deros [...] used crack. | |
![[UK]](/static/img/flags/uk.png "United Kingdom") | Guardian G2 4 Aug. 17: Ol’ Dirty Bastard got himself arrested with 20 vials of crack about his person. | |
| (con. 1990s) in One of the Guys 47: ‘My mom smokin’ crack and she act like she didn’t wanna be part of my life’. | |
![[Scot]](/static/img/flags/sco.png "Scotland") | All the Colours 320: Maitland would be free to ply his dubious trades – smack, crack, rackets and girls. | |
| Headland [ebook] ‘Whatever you need, mate. Charlie, crack, pills, smack, G, P, ice or black’. | |
![[NZ]](/static/img/flags/nz.png "New Zealand") | Boobslang [U. Canterbury D.Phil. thesis] 47/1: crack n. 2 cocaine that is refined and processed into chunks or rocks to be smoked in a glass pIpe device. | |
| Riker’s 8: I’m going through it ’cause I haven’t been able to get my crack, haven’t been able to get my medication. |
2. (N.Z. prison) heroin.
| Boobslang [U. Canterbury D.Phil. thesis] 47/1: crack n. 1 heroin. |
In compounds
(drugs) a sudden craving for crack cocaine.
| Crackhouse 148: crack attack strong physiological craving for crack-cocaine or free base. | |
| ONDCP Street Terms 6: Crack attack — Craving for crack. | |
 | Trafficking Cocaine 80: Despite many predictions [...] an overwhelming 'crack attack' on the European streets did not occur . |
(US) a girl or woman who swaps sex for crack cocaine.
| Spidertown (1994) 51: He was going to find himself a woman, but the streets were empty. No Suarez Twins, no crack babes. | |
| Latino Dreams 151: She was never a ‘crack babe’ or a ‘putona’ [...] She has befriended Amelia, but is in no danger of replicating Amelia's particular sexual history. |
1. the child of an addict of crack cocaine.
| New Jack City [film script] I have a crack baby. He was born blind. | |
| (con. 1985–90) In Search of Respect 283: It was a crack baby, so it stayed in the hospital. | |
| Black & Blue 78: The ‘crack baby’ panic that erupted during the late 1980s was an event of this kind. |
2. a general term of abuse; someone irritating.
| Spidertown (1994) 15: I know some real nice girls, gentle an’ juicy, not crack babies. | |
| Campus Sl. Apr. 3: crackbaby – someone who is constantly hyperactive. |
(UK black) a female crack addict.
| Scholar 293: Art, Johnny and Teresa, a local crackbitch, approached. | |
| Child of a Crackhead II 12: Take this crack bitch and tell your daughter I want to bust a nut tonight and to bring her ass over here if she want you to get high. |
(drugs) a few sweets and a soft drink.
| Crackhouse 148: crack diet inexpensive cookies or pastries and the smallest available container of juice. |
(drugs) a place where users of crack cocaine congregate to buy and smoke the drug.
| (con. 1982–6) Cocaine Kids (1990) 136: crack gallery a place where crack is both bought and used. | |
| ONDCP Street Terms 6: Crack gallery — Place where crack is bought and sold. | |
| Blue World n.p.: Ques pulled the cab into the trashstrewn parking lot, and he spoke his first impression: ‘Place is a crack gallery, folks’. |
1. (drugs) a smoker of crack cocaine.
| ‘Cracked Out’ 🎵 It was the same old same old crackheads out walking. | |
| Times Square Hustler 89: Crack-heads, man, they be scandalizin’ theyself chasin’ the pipe. | |
| Online Sl. Dict. 🌐 crack head n 1. someone addicted to crack cocaine. 2. someone who acts like they are addicted to crack cocaine; STUPID. (‘She is such a crack head.’). | |
| Mothers Milk 122: The captain of the First XI is now a crack-head. | |
| Alphaville (2011) 189: Crackheads go to the can’t hide it, can’t hold a job [...] level much faster than junkies. | |
| Hard Bounce [ebook] ‘Maybe the crackhead was just about to suck off big boy’s dick, here’. | |
| Razorblade Tears 14: He knew when a crackhead was going to try to stab him for a bag. |
2. attrib. use of sense 1.
| Eddie’s World 93: Some ignorant crackhead nigger moving H for the west side Dominicans. | |
| Snitch Jacket 45: Stone crackhead psycho killer. | |
| Way Home (2009) 87: His crackhead mother died young and he got moved to foster homes. | |
| Sellout (2016) 121: The wave riders’ crack-and hophead skeletons, tweaked on sunrise. |
3. an idiot.
| Campus Sl. Sept. | |
| Online Sl. Dict. 🌐 crack head n 1. someone addicted to crack cocaine. 2. someone who acts like they are addicted to crack cocaine; STUPID. (‘She is such a crack head.’). |
(US black) a woman who will offer sex in return for crack cocaine.
| Vibe Apr. 67/2: I want to work with you, but I ain’t coming out of the box in a Spike Lee joint playing no crack ho! | |
| (con. 1998–2000) You Got Nothing Coming 25: Cain’t a muthafucka get some A-condition? It be hot as a crack ho’s mouth up in here! | |
| Ascension I 275: My mother was a crack ho, I mean seriously, a prostitute. She sold whatever she could for drugs. |
1. a place where crack is processed from base cocaine.
| Ebony Oct. 140/2: Al Sharpton and members of his National Youth Movement paint an ‘X’ on a ‘crack’ house to symbolize the deaths of young people who died from the purified cocaine that was made and sold there. | |
| (con. 1982–6) Cocaine Kids (1990) 51: Dominicans are by far the majority among dealers who operate cocaine and crack houses in New York City. | |
| Yardie 107: I know where you can find lab [...] You know . . . a crack house. | |
| ‘Soul Collection’ in ThugLit July-Aug. [ebook] [T]he crackhouse—an abandoned row home where we met our customers. |
2. a room or whole house in which users gather to take crack cocaine.
| in Living Dangerously 98: There’s quite a few crack houses opening up — that’s somewhere they sell crack with guns and dogs so they don’t get ripped off. | |
| Cocaine True 22: Harold’s apartment is a crack den, where people come in to smoke. | |
| Quad-City Times (Davenport, IA) 29 Nov. A2/3: Lake [...] went into the earby apartment building [...] ‘a known crack house’. | |
| Crooked Little Vein 3: It’s almost a point of honor to live near a crackhouse. | |
| Hood Rat 194: Cambuulo had a crack-house closure served on it a few years aqgo. | |
| Corruption Officer [ebk] cap. 2: Fredis asked me to go with him to one of his other spots — crack houses. | |
| Sellout (2016) 6: A slow saunter past the White House, Phoenix House, Blair House, and the local crackhouse. |
(US campus) a crack-addicted black woman; thus, derog., any black woman.
| Da Bomb Summer Supplement 4: Crack mama (n.) {Highly offensive; derogatory} Literally, a homeless, crack-addicted African American woman. This term can be used to refer to any African American woman. | |
| ‘Ghetto Livin’’ 🎵 I pity all them babies born from crack mama’s / But I’m a mama too. | |
| He Got Me Pregnant on Purpose 105: By now, I may look like a ‘crack-mama,’ and I will even allow you to refer to my ‘baby’ as a ‘crack-baby’. |
1. (US drugs) a habitual user of crack cocaine.
| Central Sl. 16: crack monster [...] ‘Dudes be slangin’ to all them crack monsters.’. | |
| Bad Guys 23: She was a crack monster, didn’t weigh but 110 pounds. | |
| Fight Within 22: I was out of control, a complete crack monster. |
2. a woman who exchanges sexual favours for a dose of crack cocaine.
| Central Sl. 16: crack monster A girl, usually ugly, who is in such desperate need of cocaine, that she will ‘give-it-up,’ i.e., go to bed with someone, for a little crack. |
(drugs) an area where people can purchase crack cocaine, but do not smoke it.
| (con. 1982–6) Cocaine Kids (1990) 136: crack spot a place where crack is sold but not used. | |
| Grand Central Winter (1999) 62: It would be like the crack spots. Just cop and go. | |
| ONDCP Street Terms 7: Crack spot — Area where people can purchase crack; place where crack is sold, but not used. | |
| ? (Pronounced Que) [ebook] I ain’t no stick-up kid! [...] I ain’t never stuck up no crack spot! |
(US campus) a general pej., there is no need for drug use to be involved.
| [ | | Crack War (1991) 68: A crack whore nicknamed Princess [...] had turned up [dead]. |
| Royal Family 542: This too is the crack whore’s philosophy. | |
| Campus Sl. Fall 3: CRACK-WHORE – person unworthy of respect or esteem. | |
| Year of the Crack Mom 200: They said they saw Jarvis going to the crack house all the time and that you was a crack whor. | |
| The Force [ebook] The baby that some crack whore dropped into the bathtub. |
In phrases
(drugs) to smoke crack cocaine.
| Clockers 444: You crack up today? You hit the peace pipe? | |
| Get Your Cock Out 26: Mince cracked-up, the popping crystals turning into white smoke which he pulled deep into his lungs. |
(US campus) crazy, ridiculous, of behaviour or a situation.
| Campus Sl. Nov. 4: on crack – ridiculous. ‘I have 3 exams in 24 hours. It’s so on crack.’. | |
| Bangs 203: He sized himself up in the mirror—Buffalo Bill on crack, he thought—and swaggered out of the store an into the laughter of his traveling companions. |