smack n.2
1. (drugs) heroin.
![[US]](/static/img/flags/us.png "United States") | ‘Lang. of the Und. Narcotic Addict’ Pt 2 in Lang. Und. (1981) 109/1: smeck or smack. A bindle of drugs, especially a card of opium. | |
| Criminal Sl. (rev. edn). | |
| ‘Kitty Barrett’ in et al. Life (1976) 52: I was standing on the corner, just as fly as I could be, / Selling boss smack to every dope fiend I could see. | |
| Scene (1996) 61: Smack, smock, stuff, horse — they’re all heroin. | |
| (con. 1940s) Man Walking On Eggshells 155: Smack, that was junk you shot yourself with through a needle. | |
| Dopefiend (1991) 27: He removed the dropper from his needle and refilled it with smack. | |
![[NZ]](/static/img/flags/nz.png "New Zealand") | Big Huey 14: Smack wasn’t economical. | |
| ‘I’m Your Pusher’ 🎵 Crack or smack will take you to a sure end. | |
![[Aus]](/static/img/flags/aus.png "Australia") | Bad Debts (2012) [ebook] There’s about five hundred bucks worth of smack in his car. | |
![[Ire]](/static/img/flags/ire.png "Ireland") | The Joy (2015) [ebook] [I]t’s obvious this gear I’m after getting is more Shake ’n’ Vac than smack. I curse the bastard who cut it. | |
| Source Oct. 150: His catchy advertising slogan, ‘Crack’s wack! Smack’s back!’. | |
| Boobslang [U. Canterbury D.Phil. thesis] 170/2: smack n. heroin. | |
| Hollywood Station 25: Maybe she was shooting smack in her twat or someplace else he’d never look and the heroin was smoothing out all the ice she smoked? | |
| Cherry Pie [ebook] Smack. Such an unattractive look. | |
![[Scot]](/static/img/flags/sco.png "Scotland") | All the Colours 32: [M]ost of the ‘business’ in the East End – girls, smack, racketeering – went through Maitland. | |
![[UK]](/static/img/flags/uk.png "United Kingdom") | Life 57: Music [...] was very like a drug. In fact a far bigger drug than smack. I could kick smack; I couldn’t kick music. | |
| Glorious Heresies 34: The oldest women – the ones too far gone with booze or smack to operate on anything but instinct – were best avoided. | |
| Sun. Times (London) 16 Oct. 🌐 A flaky crook [...] who supplied the boxer with a lethally pure batch of smack. | |
| The Force [ebook] Malone’s crew has been watching the heroin mill [...] The Mexicans truck the smack up and deliver it to Diego Pena. | |
| Good Girl Stripped Bare 138: Is this actually happening? Our mother is asking us to score smack? | |
| ‘Sunset’ in Broken 196: Terry, don’t do another shot. Terry, don’t shoot smack. | |
| Rules of Revelation 200: Was it smack you were on or what? | |
| Orphan Road 88: ‘I made some money and developed a nasty smack habit’. |
2. adulterated cocaine.
| Black Talk. |
In derivatives
(Aus.) a heroin addict.
| ‘Racist Yes, Sexist Fine’ in What Do You Reckon (1997) [ebook] Smackies gotta have a hit of heroin. | |
| Rubdown [ebook] Her pupils were pinned, like a smackie’s, but my guess was a truckload of prescription downers. |
(US drugs) a heroin addict.
| Permanent Midnight 341: How could an AIDS-era smackster not love an album called Bleach? |
In compounds
(drugs) a heroin addict.
 | Pschedelic Drugs & Law 153: smack freak Someone who likes or is addicted to heroin. | |
| Blood Brothers 154: At fifteen she got knocked up by a twenty-year-old ex-con smack freak. | |
| Breaks 307: I was a smack freak, a pill freak. | |
| Real Thing 52: Fuckin’ smack freaks. | |
| Black Tide (2012) [ebook] Kelvin McCoy, reformed smack freak, unreformed drunk. | |
| Manoi 200: ‘He1s a smack freak,’ he explained. ‘A smack freak?’ I asked back. ‘Yeah. He smokes heroin’. | |
| Cactus Garden n.p.: A three-hundred-pound, Mexican-food-loving smack freak. |
(drugs) a heroin addict; also attrib.
| Pschedelic Drugs & Law 153: smack head Someone who likes or is addicted to heroin. | |
| Voices from the Love Generation 278: head. Any drug user [...] smack head. | |
| N.Y. Times Book Rev. 23 July 17: [He] is warned of a smackhead migration to his state. | |
| Tharunka (Sydney) 8 Nov. 27/1: D.T. ‘Smackhead’ Pilgrim poured another schooner glass of Mascot International Terminal watered down slops all over his wrist. | |
| Trainspotting 241: It was all too easy to blame the smack-heads or the buftie-boys at that time. | |
| Grits 231: A wouldn’t quite call Roger a smackhead, not at the moment like [...] but ee’s certainly startin t’talk like one — stupid junkie contempt for anythin except heroin. | |
| Boobslang [U. Canterbury D.Phil. thesis] 170/2: smackhead (also smackie) n. a heroin addict. | |
| Guardian Society 13 July 🌐 You give them a number and the smackheads know and then you say ‘pass that number to other people.’. | |
| Sun. Times 19 Dec. 21: [headline] My daily fix, Prof, is to stigmatise these smackheads. | |
| (con. 1980s) Skagboys 341: Marriott starts slavering on again, in that maundering, self-obsessed smackheid wey. | |
| OG Dad 167: But smackheadism is what I know. | |
| Old Scores [ebook] ‘Said he knew some smackhead cray fishermen who’d do it’. | |
| Empty Wigs (t/s) 293: [O]piates really fuck your bowels. Smackheads never let on. Destroys the mystique. |
(Aus. drugs) a ‘starter kit’ of heroin, containing a portion of the drugs and the equipment for injection.
| New York Mag. 14 Sept. 37: Smack pack: A customized heroin bag. | |
| Canberra Times 8 Aug. 3: Children are offered ‘smack packs’ – a portion of heroin, syringe and starter kit for $5. | |
| Raising Real People 89: The price and purity of the heroin made the purchase of a ‘smack pack’ a convenient and cheap way to get high. |
In phrases
1. (drugs) under the influence of heroin.
| Last Best Hope 420: I was probably running away or stoned or smacked out daydreaming. | |
| Brown’s Requiem 69: Dilaudid used to be delightful, but now I’ve got to be smacked-back for all the pain to go. | |
| Prison Sl. 79: Smacked Back To be high on heroin. | |
| Trainspotting 328: They were obviously smacked out of their eyebrows. | |
| Everybody Smokes in Hell 11: Hopped up or something. Crack, blow, smacked up or something. | |
| Powder 153: Fucken smacked-out gobshite! | |
| Observer Mag. 25 Jan. 32: We were strung out, or smacked out. | |
| ‘Jungletown Jihad’ in Destination: Morgue! (2004) 334: He’s dinged with needle tracks, smug and smacked-back. | |
| Crooked Little Vein 7: The Fashion Channel. All those skeletal smacked-out girls. | |
| Truth 181: You’re the smacked-out medico patches up these cunts. | |
| Viva La Madness 279: His eyes are pinned, he’s smacked-up. | |
| ‘Grassed’ in Crime Factory: Hard Labour [ebook] They’re even more smacked out than usual. | |
| Straight Dope [ebook] [A] certain type of junkie girl when you ran into her all smacked back. |
2. (US) as smacked, in general use, with no specific ref. to heroin, very intoxicated .
| The Cut (NY Times Mag.) Mar. 🌐 Smacked — Stoned, like really stoned. |
(US black/teen) to gossip maliciously; to speak aggressively; thus smack-talking, malicious gossip.
| Educational Life Histories 170: I tell them later, you know, get out of my face when they're talking smack to me. | |
| Sl. U. | |
| Straight Outta Compton 10: He kept talking smack, his story getting more and more depressing with each lie. | |
| in San Jose Mercury News 11 May n.p.: […] She was beaten up for talking so much smack about Eve. | |
| Ebonics Primer at www.dolemite.com 🌐 smack Definition: nonsense, untruthful or unjustified statements or accusations Example: Yo, why dat nigga be talkin’ smack ’bout my ass? | |
| Royal Family 625: You talkin’ smack to me, girl? I said, you givin’ me static. | |
| Mad mag. Sept. 8: Matt did a fair amount of smack-talking about Letters mainstay Jim Hutchings. | |
| Night Gardener 201: Ronald and Richard losing as usual and talking smack about their opponents. | |
| Rough Trade [ebook] ‘They kept trying to get me to talk smack about you’. | |
| ‘Milly Rock’ 🎵 He was talkin smack ’til my guy blew out his back. | |
| What They Was 101: The D-block mandem [...] talking smack in loud voices . | |
| Didn’t Nobody Give a Shit 32: He could talk all kinds of smack, but [...] everything sounded like an invitation to a hot-oil massage. |