mix n.
1. a muddle, a mess.
 | A Likely Story iii: What a fatal, fatal mix [F&H]. | |
![[Aus]](/static/img/flags/aus.png "Australia") | ‘Half A Man’ in Chisholm (1951) 104: My part’s to fix / A meetin’ so there won’t be any mix. |
2. a fight, a brawl.
![[UK]](/static/img/flags/uk.png "United Kingdom") | Mirror of Life 2 Dec. 3/1: ‘Blower’ Brown would never have won Sir John Astley's big mix but for his trainer Jack Smith. | |
| Down Donkey Row 22: Just a mix in the street. |
3. (Aus. drugs) a combination of cannabis and other herbs, usu. tobacco.
![[US]](/static/img/flags/us.png "United States") | Snowblind (1978) 176: He was arrested stepping off a plane from Miami in priest’s garb, carrying a kilo of mix. |
4. (S.Afr.) methylated spirits, as drunk by alcoholics.
![[SA]](/static/img/flags/sa.png "South Africa") | Dict. S. Afr. Eng. (4th edn). |
5. (US drugs) a powder used to cut cocaine.
| Snowblind (1978) 180: Alice collected the mix (half a kilo of borax). |
6. (US black) one’s private life.
| Campus Sl. Apr. 6: mix – someone’s personal space or business. | |
| Ebonics Primer at www.dolemite.com 🌐 mix Definition: personal affairs Example: Ya betta tell that ho’ ta quit gettin up in my mix. | |
| Portable Promised Land (ms.) 157: We Words (My Favorite Things) [...] The mix. The mack. The shit. The whips. |
7. (US black) the record turntable or turntables as used by hip-hop and rap DJs, and the music played.
| Central Sl. |
8. (US black) in abstract senses.
(a) a difficult situation.
| Prison Sl. 50: Mix A situation in which the circumstances create an unfavorable and compromising position. |
(b) the memory.
| Prison Sl. 50: Another way in which mix is used is to remember information for future reference. When facts or information about someone or something are recorded in one’s memory for future reference, it is referred to as putting that information in the mix. |
9. an environment in which drugs are involved.
| ONDCP Street Terms 15: Mix — A term used to refer to cocaine or a drug environment. |
In phrases
1. (US black) involved, esp. in gang activities.
| ‘Reckless’ 🎵 When we’re in the mix, you know the groove is fresh. | |
| Central Sl. 36: mix, in the [...] ‘Dudes are buff in jail n’ lose it all once they get back out in the mix.’. | |
| ‘187’ 🎵 Now it’s time to put they ass in the mix. | |
| Night Gardener 156: There were some [people] like that in the mix. But not us. | |
| ? (Pronounced Que) [ebook] ‘ know where he be at, too!’ Peanut replied, happy to be in the mix. | |
| OG Dad xii: Throw a toddler in the mix and you’ve got an unnatural, if thrill-acked and delightful, setup for decline. | |
| Joey Piss Pot 50: [A] retirement he wouldn’t be able to afford unless he nailed a Pick 6 at Belmont with at least two longshots in the mix. |
2. (US prison) in prison.
| (con. 1998–2000) You Got Nothing Coming 40: Kinda old to be up in the mix, dawg, know what I’m sayin’? |
to involve someone.
| (con. 1963) November Road 227: Stan Contini had no reason to bring Moe Dalitz into the mix. |
to cause trouble deliberately, to interfere in a malicious manner.
| Fings II i: I reckon Meatface put the mix in with the Governor. | |
![[Scot]](/static/img/flags/sco.png "Scotland") | (con. mid-1960s) Glasgow Gang Observed 82: The gang’s only other pastime was ‘puttin’ the mix in’. [Ibid.] 234: Mix, as in ‘to put the mix in’ – to contrive a quarrel, to cause a fight by intrigue. |