Drug Slang Dictionary - Heroin
| A-bomb | marijuana and heroin smoked in cigarette |
| a la canona | abrupt ("cold turkey") withdrawal from heroin |
| baby | minor heroin habit |
| belly habit | heroin addiction resulting in stomach symptoms |
| black tar heroin | potent heroin from Mexico |
| blue velvet | combination of elixir terpin hydrate with codeine and tripelennamine (as weak heroin substitute) |
| blue velvet | combination of paregoric and PBZ (pyribenzamine or tripelennamine) used as a weak heroin substitute |
| brother | heroin |
| chasing the dragon | inhaling vapors of heroin or cocaine heated on tin foil |
| chicken shit habit | small heroin habit, usually not addicted |
| chick | heroin |
| China white | very pure form of heroin, alternately a fentanyl analog used as a heroin substitute |
| cotton shooter | desperate addict who injects the residue from cotton used to filter heroin |
| daytime | high on drugs, especially heroin |
| dip and dab | experiment, especially with heroin |
| do up | inject a drug, especially heroin |
| evening | onset of heroin withdrawal (start of night time) |
| firing the ack ack gun | technique for smoking heroin by dipping tip of a tobacco cigarette in heroin (Asian slang) |
| floating | high on a drug, especially heroin |
| fluff | filtering heroin or cocaine through cloth (often a stocking) to increase its apparent bulk |
| goods | any drug, especially heroin |
| good sick | nausea following heroin injection |
| Harry Jones | heroin |
| heavy stuff | heroin or cocaine |
| Judas | heroin (a friend that betrays you) |
| King Kong | major heroin habit |
| man | heroin; drug dealer; the police |
| Mister Brownstone | hashish, brown heroin |
| monkey on one's back | addiction to a drug, especially heroin or opium |
| night time | heroin withdrawal |
| Nixon | low potency heroin |
| partying | using a drug, especially heroin; getting drunk |
| people, the | high level heroin distributors |
| pineapple | heroin and Ritalin or amphetamine |
| poison people | heroin addicts |
| poor man's speedball | heroin and methamphetamine combo |
| red chicken | Chinese heroin |
| schmack | heroin |
| schmeck | heroin |
| schmecker | heroin user |
| score | price of a bundle of drugs, especially heroin |
| used as a heroin substitute | |
| shit | heroin |
| sleepwalker | heroin addict |
| speedball | injection of heroin and cocaine mixture |
| speedball artist | one who injects heroin and cocaine mixture |
| super flu | heroin withdrawal symptoms |
| take off artists | heroin addicts who rob other addicts to get drugs |
| taking care of business | heroin addicts life and actions on the street |
| tapping the bags | when dealers remove small amounts of heroin from a bag before selling it, thus short weighting the buyer |
| tecata | heroin |
| ten cent pistol | heroin dose laced with poison |
| T's and Blues | Talwin (pentazocine) and PBZ (pyribenzamine) used as a heroin substitute |
| T's and B's | Talwin (pentazocine) and PBZ (pyribenzamine) used as a heroin substitute |
| tease and bees | Talwin (pentazocine) and PBZ (pyribenzamine) used as a heroin substitute |
| tease and blues | Talwin (pentazocine) and PBZ (pyribenzamine) used as a heroin substitute |
| tease and pies | Talwin (pentazocine) and PBZ (pyribenzamine) used as a heroin substitute |
| teddies and bettys | Talwin (pentazocine) and PBZ (pyribenzamine) used as a heroin substitute |
| tops and bottoms | Talwin (pentazocine) and PBZ (pyribenzamine) used as a heroin substitute |
| tricycles and bicycles | Talwin (pentazocine) and PBZ (pyribenzamine) used as a heroin substitute |
| wired | intoxicated on amphetamines; addicted to heroin |
| AIP | heroin from Afghanistan, Iran, & Pakistan |
| Antifreeze | heroin |
| Aries | heroin |
| Atom bomb | marijuana and heroin |
| Aunt Hazel | heroin |
| Back to back | smoking crack after injecting heroin or heroin used after smoking crack |
| Bad bundle | inferior quality heroin |
| Bad seed | peyote; heroin; marijuana |
| Balloon | heroin supplier |
| Ballot | heroin |
| Belushi | cocaine and heroin |
| Big bag | heroin |
| Big H | heroin |
| Big Harry | heroin |
| Bindle | small packet of drug powder; heroin |
| Birdie powder | heroin; cocaine |
| Black pearl | heroin |
| Black stuff | heroin |
| Black tar | heroin |
| Blanco | heroin |
| Bomb | crack; heroin; large marijuana cigarette; |
| high potency heroin | |
| Bombido | injectable amphetamine; heroin; depressant |
| Bombita | amphetamine; heroin; depressant |
| Bombs away | heroin |
| Bonita | heroin |
| Boy | heroin |
| Bozo | heroin |
| Brick gum | heroin |
| Brown | heroin; marijuana |
| Brown crystal | heroin |
| Brown rhine | heroin |
| Brown sugar | heroin |
| Bundle | heroin |
| Butu | heroin |
| Caballo | heroin |
| Caca | heroin |
| Capital H | heroin |
| Caps | heroin; psilocybin/psilocin |
| Carga | heroin |
| Carne | heroin |
| Channel swimmer | one who injects heroin |
| Charley | heroin |
| Chasing the dragon | crack and heroin |
| Chasing the tiger | to smoke heroin |
| Chicle | heroin |
| Chieva | heroin |
| China cat | high potency heroin |
| Chinese red | heroin |
| Chip | heroin |
| Chucks | hunger following withdrawal from heroin |
| Cigarette paper | packet of heroin |
| Climax | crack; isobutyl nitrite; heroin |
| Cook | mix heroin with water; heating heroin to prepare it for injection |
| Cook down | process in which users liquify heroin in order to inhale it |
| Cotics | heroin |
| Cotton brothers | cocaine, heroin and morphine |
| Courage pills | heroin; depressant |
| Crap/crop | low quality heroin |
| Crown crap | heroin |
| Cura | heroin |
| Cut-deck | heroin mixed with powdered milk |
| Dead on arrival | heroin |
| Deck | 1 to 15 grams of heroin, also known as a bag; |
| Deuce | $2 worth of drugs; heroin |
| Dime's worth | amount of heroin to cause death |
| Dirt | heroin |
| Dog food | heroin |
| Dogie | heroin |
| Doogie/doojee/dugie | heroin |
| Dooley | heroin |
| Dope | heroin; marijuana; any other drug |
| Dreck | heroin |
| Duji | heroin |
| Dust | heroin; cocaine; PCP; marijuana mixed with various chemicals |
| Dusting | adding PCP, heroin, or another drug to marijuana |
| Dynamite | heroin and cocaine |
| Dyno | heroin |
| Dyno-pure | heroin |
| Eightball | crack and heroin |
| Eighth | heroin |
| El diablito | marijuana, cocaine, heroin and PCP |
| El diablo | marijuana, cocaine and heroin |
| Estuffa | heroin |
| Ferry dust | heroin |
| Flamethrowers | cigarette laced with cocaine and heroin |
| Flea powder | low purity heroin |
| Foo foo stuff | heroin; cocaine |
| Foolish powder | heroin; cocaine |
| Frisco special | cocaine, heroin and LSD |
| Frisco speedball | cocaine, heroin and LSD |
| Galloping horse | heroin |
| Gamot | heroin |
| Gato | heroin |
| George smack | heroin |
| Girl | cocaine; crack; heroin |
| Give wings | inject someone or teach someone to inject heroin |
| Glacines | heroin |
| Golden girl | heroin |
| Golpe | heroin |
| Goma | opium; black tar heroin |
| Good and plenty | heroin |
| Good H | heroin |
| Goofball | cocaine and heroin; depressant |
| Gravy | to inject a drug; heroin |
| H | heroin |
| H & C | heroin and cocaine |
| H Caps | heroin |
| Hache | heroin |
| Hairy | heroin |
| Half load | 15 bags (decks) of heroin |
| Half piece | 1/2 ounce of heroin or cocaine |
| Hard candy | heroin |
| Hard stuff | opium; heroin |
| Harry | heroin |
| Hazel | heroin |
| Heaven dust | heroin; cocaine |
| Helen | heroin |
| Hell dust | heroin |
| Henry | heroin |
| Hero | heroin |
| Hero of the underworld | heroin |
| Heroina | heroin |
| Herone | heroin |
| Hessle | heroin |
| Him | heroin |
| Hombre | heroin |
| Hong-yen | heroin in pill form |
| Horning | heroin; to inhale cocaine |
| Horse | heroin |
| Hot dope | heroin |
| Hot heroin | poisoned to give to a police informant |
| HRN | heroin |
| Hype | heroin addict; an addict |
| Isda | heroin |
| Jee gee | heroin |
| Jive | heroin; marijuana; drugs |
| Jive doo jee | heroin |
| Jojee | heroin |
| Jolly pop | casual user of heroin |
| Jones | heroin |
| Joy flakes | heroin |
| Joy powder | heroin; cocaine |
| Junk | cocaine; heroin |
| Kabayo | heroin |
| Karachi | heroin |
| LBJ | LSD; PCP; heroin |
| Lemonade | heroin; poor quality drugs |
| Little bomb | amphetamine; heroin; depressant |
| Load | 25 bags of heroin |
| Matsakow | heroin |
| Mayo | cocaine; heroin |
| Mexican brown | heroin; marijuana |
| Mexican horse | heroin |
| Mexican mud | heroin |
| Mojo | cocaine; heroin |
| Moonrock | crack and heroin |
| Morotgara | heroin |
| Mortal combat | high potency heroin |
| Mud | opium; heroin |
| Murder one | heroin and cocaine |
| Muzzle | heroin |
| Nanoo | heroin |
| New Jack Swing | heroin and morphine |
| Nice and easy | heroin |
| Nickel bag | $5 worth of drugs; heroin |
| Nickel deck | heroin |
| Nod | effects of heroin |
| Noise | heroin |
| Nose | heroin |
| Nose drops | liquified heroin |
| Number 3 | cocaine, heroin |
| Number 4 | heroin |
| Number 8 | heroin |
| Ogoy | heroin |
| Oil | heroin, PCP |
| Old Steve | heroin |
| P-dope | 20-30% pure heroin |
| P-funk | heroin; crack and PCP |
| Pack | heroin; marijuana |
| Pangonadalot | heroin |
| Paper boy | heroin peddler |
| Parachute | crack and PCP smoked; heroin |
| Peg | heroin |
| Perfect High | heroin |
| Poison | heroin; fentanyl |
| Polvo | heroin; PCP |
| Poppy | heroin |
| Powder | heroin; amphetamine |
| Primos | cigarettes laced with cocaine and heroin |
| Pulborn | heroin |
| Pure | heroin |
| Quill | methamphetamine; heroin; cocaine |
| Racehorse charlie | cocaine; heroin |
| Ragweed | inferior quality marijuana; heroin |
| Rambo | heroin |
| Rane | cocaine; heroin |
| Ready rock | cocaine; crack; heroin |
| Red chicken | heroin |
| Red eagle | heroin |
| Reindeer dust | heroin |
| Rhine | heroin |
| Sack | heroin |
| Salt | heroin |
| Sandwich | two layers of cocaine with a layer of heroin |
| Scag | heroin |
| Scat | heroin |
| Scate | heroin |
| Scott | heroin |
| Shmeck/schmeek | heroin |
| Skid | heroin |
| Sleeper | heroin; depressant |
| Slime | heroin |
| Smack | heroin |
| Smoke | heroin and crack; crack; marijuana |
| Smoking gun | heroin and cocaine |
| Snow | cocaine; heroin; amphetamine |
| Snowball | cocaine and heroin |
| Speedball | heroin and cocaine; amphetamine |
| Spider blue | heroin |
| Spoon | 1/16 ounce of heroin;paraphernalia used to prepare heroin for injection |
| Stuff | heroin |
| Sugar | cocaine; LSD; heroin |
| Sweet Jesus | heroin |
| Sweet stuff | heroin; cocaine |
| T.N.T. | heroin; fentanyl |
| Tar | opium; heroin |
| Taste | heroin; small sample of drugs |
| Tecate | heroin |
| Tecatos | Hispanic heroin addicts |
| The beast | heroin |
| The witch | heroin |
| Thing | heroin; cocaine; main drug interest at the moment |
| Tootsie roll | heroin |
| Whack | PCP and heroin |
| White boy | heroin |
| White girl | cocaine; heroin |
| White junk | heroin |
| White lady | cocaine; heroin |
| White nurse | heroin |
| White stuff | heroin |
| Whiz bang | cocaine and heroin |
| Wings | heroin; cocaine |
| Witch | heroin; cocaine |
| Witch hazel | heroin |
| Z | 1 ounce of heroin |
| red rum | potent form of heroin (murder spelled backward) |
| black tootsie roll | black tar heroin |
| white horse | Heroin |
| cheva | heroin |
| chiva | heroin |
Source: The Office of National Drug Control Policy.
