speedball v.2
(drugs) to smoke, sniff or inject a mixture of heroin and cocaine or morphine and cocaine; thus speedballing n.
Howard Street 179: When a cat mixes some heroin and cocaine together and shoots it [...] That’s what’s called speedballin’. | ||
(con. 1940s) Addicts Who Survived 134: Sometimes I’d speedball, using coke and morphine together. | ||
Guardian Rev. 16 July 3: Tom finds a naked hooker called Mandy who has speedballed out. | ||
ONDCP Street Terms 20: Speedballing — To shoot up or smoke a mixture of cocaine and heroin; ecstasy mixed with ketamine. |
In derivatives
(drugs) one who injects or sniffs a mixture of heroin and cocaine.
Corner (1998) 63: Watching the pipers and speedballers get bum-rushed on the corners, they would shake their heads and mutter. | ||
Straight Dope [ebook] [O]ne crazy, little Russian speedballer named Igor. |