base v.2
1. to smoke cocaine.
![[US]](/static/img/flags/us.png "United States") | (con. 1982–6) Cocaine Kids (1990) 33: At about five a.m. they wanted to base and shit, and I knew Max didn’t base either. | |
![[UK]](/static/img/flags/uk.png "United Kingdom") | Yardie 93: Man, we base excess amount ah charlie last night. |
2. to intensify the effect of cocaine by heating it in combination with ether or other chemicals before inhaling.
| (con. 1982–6) Cocaine Kids (1990) 41: It’s hurting me because people don’t want to pay two hundred dollars for a gram of pure rock, but they wanna base up the best stuff. | |
| Crackhouse 55: Until that time Liz had not used crack. ‘I didn’t base until we broke up, because I didn’t like the smell of the stuff. I started basing because I was hanging out with these crackheads.’. | |
![[Aus]](/static/img/flags/aus.png "Australia") | Candy 72: If you weigh a given amount of cocaine before and after basing it, you can work out its purity. | |
| Atomic Lobster 180: Don’t make any sudden moves [...] I think he’s been basing. |
In derivatives
1. (drugs) using or addicted to crack cocaine.
 | dictionary-com 6 Sept. 🌐 Based is a slang term that originally meant to be addicted to crack cocaine (or acting like you were), but was reclaimed by rapper Lil B for being yourself and not caring what others think of you—to carry yourself with swagger. |
2. see based adj. (1)
(US drugs) one who uses crack cocaine.
| (con. 1982–6) Cocaine Kids (1990) 109: Basers – alone or in groups – appear to talk or interact much less than do snorters. | |
| Permanent Midnight 342: Half the ’basers in the goddam Emergency Room aren’t even in there for coke. |