foil n.
(drugs) a quantity of drugs, e.g. amphetamine, heroin or cannabis, wrapped in foil ready for sale.
 | cited in Drug Awareness (1970). | |
![[US]](/static/img/flags/us.png "United States") | Underground Dict. (1972). | |
![[Aus]](/static/img/flags/aus.png "Australia") | ‘Kill Two Birds’ in What Do You Reckon (1997) [ebook] [A] plastic bag with about half-a-dozen foils in it. A few lousy grams of crappy leaf. | |
| Canberra Times 8 Aug. 3: Other details released yesterday show a foil of heroin, giving two hits, can be bought for $30. A starter kit costs $10. | |
![[NZ]](/static/img/flags/nz.png "New Zealand") | Boobslang [U. Canterbury D.Phil. thesis] 72/2: foil (also foilie) n. a bullet of cannabis, enough for about two or three cigarettes, wrapped in tinfoil. | |
| Information Sheet 🌐 The capsules [of amphetamine] vary considerably in colour and are sometimes sold in commercial brand shells. They are packaged in ‘foils’ (aluminium foil), plastic bags or small balloons when sold on the streets. | |
| Drama City 191: I had a whole rack of foil in my pocket and took a felony charge. |
In compounds
(UK drugs) a heroin addict whose preferred method of ingestion is to inhale the fumes when the drug is heated on a piece of silver foil.
![[UK]](/static/img/flags/uk.png "United Kingdom") | Urban Grimshaw vii: Foil-face Person who smokes heroin from tinfoil, a practice often called chasing the dragon. [Ibid.] 41: ‘Dirty digger?’ ‘Nope.’ ‘Foil-face?’ ‘Nope.’. |
In phrases
to inhale fumes from heroin heated on a piece of foil.
| Slapshot [film script] Ned Braden: What are you doing? Jeff Hanson: Puttin’ on the foil! [...] Want some? |