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[US] T. Williams Crackhouse 123: They’re the ones who can turn a person down if they don’t like him or if he don’t look right – if the guy looks sickly or look like he’s got the big A.
at big A, n.
[US] T. Williams Crackhouse 151: spacebase cigar with tobacco removed and refilled with angel dust (PCP) and crack-cocaine.
at angel dust, n.
[US] T. Williams Crackhouse 87: Do you believe the balls on this son of a bitch?
at balls, n.
[US] T. Williams Crackhouse 135: It is unclear how the father knew she was a ‘basehead’.
at basehead (n.) under base, n.1
[US] T. Williams 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.’.
at base, v.2
[US] T. Williams Crackhouse 146: base house – location for purchasing and using crack-cocaine freebase (pre-1985).
at basehouse (n.) under base, n.1
[US] T. Williams Crackhouse 73: She is actually making freebase. ‘I’m not cooking crack now,’ she laughs. ‘This is base. This is the bigtime.’.
at base, n.1
[US] T. Williams Crackhouse 74: Nobody does base anymore because coke ain’t selling; it’s crack that’s selling.
at base, n.1
[US] T. Williams Crackhouse 4: Freebase, or ‘base,’ is cocaine with the hydrochloride removed, a process that involves reducing the powdered cocaine to a rock-like substance ready for smoking. Crack is similar, but one or more chemicals are added in its manufacture. [Ibid.] 9: People began to smoke cocaine in the form of ‘base’ or ‘crack’.
at base, n.1
[US] T. Williams Crackhouse 146: base galleries – places for use of freebase; entrance fee required, with use and selling on premises.
at base gallery (n.) under base, n.1
[US] T. Williams Crackhouse 4: By 1985, crackhouses – then called ‘basing galleries’ – were becoming the major institutions catering to cocaine users.
at basing gallery, n.
[US] T. Williams Crackhouse 74: ‘I thought bazuca was the residue when they make freebase,’ he says, ‘and con-con was just about the same thing.’.
at basuco, n.
[US] T. Williams Crackhouse 74: The kids in my old block used to soak Bambu paper with the con-con, roll a cigarette and smoke it, and call that bazuca. Now they do something quite different. They mix dope [heroin] and crack in the pipe.
at bazuca, n.
[US] T. Williams Crackhouse 42: Every crack user must have a stem [...] One cannot ‘beam up’ or ‘talk to Scotty’ without one.
at beam up, v.1
[US] T. Williams Crackhouse 35: When you want to get high, you say, ‘Beam me up, Scotty’.
at beam me up, Scotty!, excl.
[US] T. Williams Crackhouse 21: Others freeze momentarily in order to ‘see Scotty’ — a term for the crack-cocaine high. [Ibid.] 118: Others won’t let a man touch them while they’re talking to Scotty. [Ibid.] 123: Having sex is natural. It’s just better when you’re high off Scotty.
at beam me up, Scotty, n.
[US] T. Williams Crackhouse 146: beamers – smokers of crack-cocaine freebase.
at beamer, n.2
[US] T. Williams Crackhouse 82: One night I went and there was this little kid behind the scale who I didn’t know. [Ibid. ] 146: behind the scale – weighing and selling cocaine.
at behind the scale (n.) under behind, prep.
[US] T. Williams Crackhouse 73: This is base. This is the big time.
at big time, n.1
[US] T. Williams Crackhouse 135: So I got angry and pitched the bitch.
at pitch a/the bitch (v.) under bitch, n.1
[US] T. Williams Crackhouse 80: Watching users, it is clear that they try very hard to maintain the intense part of the high, the ‘blast’.
at blast, n.1
[US] T. Williams Crackhouse 146: blast – powerful puff from a freebase pipe.
at blast, n.1
[US] T. Williams Crackhouse 81: As I pulled, I could see the cloud gathering, what they call the ‘blizzard’.
at blizzard, n.1
[US] T. Williams Crackhouse 95: He wants to get fucked; he wants to get blown.
at blown (out), adj.
[US] T. Williams Crackhouse 74: For a time, New York City users took to smoking ‘blunts,’ a mixture of crack-cocaine, marijuana, and tobacco. [Ibid.] 147: blunt – cigar with most of the tobacco removed, refilled with cocaine and marijuana (coke blunt) or sinsemilla, Thai, indica, or other high-grade marijuana (buda blunt).
at blunt, n.3
[US] T. Williams Crackhouse 65: Six teenage boys bop through wearing rabbit-ear hats, crooked caps, or hooded parkas.
at bop, v.
[US] T. Williams Crackhouse 147: blunt – cigar with most of the tobacco removed, refilled with cocaine and marijuana (coke blunt) or sinsemilla, Thai, indica, or other high-grade marijuana (buda blunt).
at buddha, n.
[US] T. Williams Crackhouse 120: A master blaster is nothing more than a big rock of crack. But a double master blaster is something altogether different. That’s when a man is being buffed by a girl while he’s smoking on the pipe with crack in it and he comes.
at buff, v.2
[US] T. Williams Crackhouse 117: She wants men to see her as an attractive girl, not as a person who’s a good buffer.
at buffer, n.6
[US] T. Williams Crackhouse 77: This is what we call ‘the bug-out’ – we say ‘he’s bugging’.
at bug, v.6
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