smack n.2
1. (drugs) heroin.
Lang. Und. (1981) 109/1: smeck or smack. A bindle of drugs, especially a card of opium. | ‘Lang. of the Und. Narcotic Addict’ Pt 2 in||
Criminal Sl. (rev. edn). | ||
‘Kitty Barrett’ in 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. | et al.||
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. | ||
Big Huey 14: Smack wasn’t economical. | ||
🎵 Crack or smack will take you to a sure end. | ‘I’m Your Pusher’||
Bad Debts (2012) [ebook] There’s about five hundred bucks worth of smack in his car. | ||
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!’. | ||
NZEJ 13 35: smack n. Heroin. | ‘Boob Jargon’ in||
Observer Rev. 22 Aug. 4: She strayed back to smack a few times. | ||
Grits 479: Lovely little Margaret; heroin will kill her. Naffin maw certain — smack will kill her. | ||
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. | ||
All the Colours 32: [M]ost of the ‘business’ in the East End – girls, smack, racketeering – went through Maitland. | ||
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? | ||
Bloody January 267: ‘New connections, new ways of doing things, making money. Smack’s only a part of it’. | ||
Broken 196: Terry, don’t do another shot. Terry, don’t shoot smack. | ‘Sunset’ in||
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.
What Do You Reckon (1997) [ebook] Smackies gotta have a hit of heroin. | ‘Racist Yes, Sexist Fine’ in||
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.
smack freak Someone who likes or is addicted to heroin. | Pschedelic Drugs & Law 153:||
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.
smack head Someone who likes or is addicted to heroin. | Pschedelic Drugs & Law 153:||
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. | ||
Destination: Morgue! (2004) 334: He’s dinged with needle tracks, smug and smacked-back. | ‘Jungletown Jihad’ in||
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. | ||
Crime Factory: Hard Labour [ebook] They’re even more smacked out than usual. | ‘Grassed’ in||
Bloody January 267: ‘[S]he’s just another whoor. Smacked-out whoor now, good for nothing’. | ||
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. | ||
San Jose Mercury News 11 May n.p.: […] She was beaten up for talking so much smack about Eve. | in||
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’. | ||
🎵 He was talkin smack ’til my guy blew out his back. | ‘Milly Rock’||
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. |