| STREET TERM |
DEFINITION |
| 151 |
Crack Cocaine |
| 2-for-1 sale |
A marketing scheme designed to promote and increase crack sales |
| Author |
Doctor who writes illegal prescriptions |
| Bag man |
Person who transports money; a person who supplies narcotics or other drugs, a pusher |
| Balloon |
Heroin supplier; a penny balloon that contains narcotics |
| BC bud |
Marijuana from British Columbia; synonymous with any high-grade marijuana from Canada |
| Beat artist |
Person selling bogus drugs |
| Beat vials |
Viles containing sham crack to cheat buyers |
| Big man |
Drug supplier |
| Blank |
Container of nonnarcotic powder that is sold as heroin |
| Body-packer |
Individual who ingests wrapped packets of crack or cocaine to transport |
| Body-stuffer |
Individual who ingests crack vials to avoid prosecution |
| Boxed |
In jail |
| Breakdown |
$40 of crack cocaine that can be broken down into $20 packages |
| Brewery |
Place where drugs are made |
| Broker |
Go between in a drug deal; heavy drug user |
| Buck |
Shoot someone in the head |
| Bull |
Narcotics agent or police officer |
| Burn transaction |
Selling a substance as a certain drug |
| Burned |
Purchase fake drugs |
| Busted |
Arrested |
| Candy sticks |
Marijuana cigarettes laced with powdered cocaine |
| Candyman |
Drug supplier |
| Cap up |
Transfer bulk form drugs to capsules |
| Clips |
Rows of vials heat-sealed together |
| Clocker |
Entry level crack dealers who sell drugs 24 hours a day. |
| Clocking paper |
Profits from selling drugs |
| Cluckers |
Middlemen who facilitate the connection between buyers and sellers |
| Come up |
A person who sells drugs for money; to take a small amount of money and increase to a large amount. |
| Connect |
Purchase drugs; supplier of illegal drugs |
| Cook |
Drug manufacturer; mix heroin with water; heating heroin to prepare it for injection |
| Cooker |
To inject a drug; person who manufactures methamphetamine |
| Cooking up |
To process powdered cocaine into crack. |
| Cop |
Obtain drugs |
| Copping zones |
Specific areas where buyers can purchase drugs |
| Crack gallery |
Place where crack is bought and sold |
| Crack house |
Place where crack is used |
| Crack spot |
Area where people can purchase crack; place where crack is sold, but not used |
| Crankster |
Someone who uses or manufatures methamphetamine |
| Cut |
Adulterate drugs |
| Diamond folds |
Folded paper used to package drugs |
| Dipping out |
Crack runners taking a portion of crack from vials |
| Dominican knot |
The torn and knotted corner of a baggie containing drugs |
| Double breasted dealing |
Dealing cocaine and heroin together |
| Double up |
When a crack dealer delivers an extra rock as a marketing ploy to attract customers |
| Drought |
Decrease in drug availability typically related to large law enforcement busts |
| Dub |
When a crack dealer delivers an extra rock as a marketing ploy to attract customers |
| Easy score |
Obtaining drugs without difficulties |
| El Gallo ("rooster") |
Marijuana |
| El Perico ("parrot") |
Cocaine |
| Elbows |
One pound of methamphetamine |
| Factory |
Place where drugs are packaged, diluted, or manufactured |
| Fall |
Arrested |
| Fingers |
The cut-off fingers of surgical gloves used to package drugs |
| Fleece |
Counterfeit crack cocaine |
| Freeze |
Cocaine; renege on a drug deal |
| Gangster |
Marijuana; person who uses or manufactures methamphetamine |
| Get a gift |
Obtain drugs |
| Get off houses |
Private places heroin users can purchase & use heroin for a fee |
| Get through |
Obtain drugs |
| Giro house |
Non-bank financial institutions for businesses frequently used by drug traffickers to launder drug proceeds |
| Go-between |
Intermediary between dealer and buyer |
| Good go |
Proper amount of drugs for the money paid |
| Gopher |
Person paid to pickup drugs |
| Got it going on |
Fast sale of drugs |
| Grow(s) |
Marijuana growing operations (indoor and outdoor) |
| Half elbows |
1/2 pound of methamphetamine |
| Hand-to-hand |
Direct delivery and payment |
| Hand-to-hand man |
Transient dealers who carry small amounts of crack |
| Hawkers |
Individuals who walk through a setting (nightclub) announcing the availability of a drug (typically MDMA, GHB, or LSD) |
| Head shop |
Store specializing in the sale of drug paraphernalia |
| Heat |
The police or narcotics officers |
| Heeled |
Having plenty of money |
| Hustle |
Attempt to obtain drug customers |
| Hydrogrows |
Indoor marijuana growing operations |
| In |
Connected with drug suppliers |
| Juggle |
Sell drugs to another addict to support a habit |
| Juggler |
Teen-aged street dealer |
| Jumbos |
Large vials of crack sold on the streets; marijuana mixed with crack |
| K-lots |
Bags of 1,000 MDMA pills |
| Kester plant |
Drugs hidden in the rectum |
| Kissing |
The exchange of plastic wrapped rocks (crack) by kissing or through mouth to mouth transfer |
| La Chiva ("goat") |
Heroin |
| Lettuce |
Money |
| Macaroni and Cheese |
$5 pack of marijuana and a dime bag of cocaine |
| Make up |
Need to find more drugs |
| Merchandise |
Drugs |
| Mule |
Carrier of drugs |
| Nailed |
Arrested |
| On ice |
In jail |
| One on one house |
Where cocaine and heroin can be purchased |
| One plus one sales |
Selling cocaine and heroin together |
| One-stop shop |
Place where more than one drug is sold |
| Paper boy |
Heroin peddler |
| Papers |
Folded paper used to package drugs |
| Peddlar |
Drug supplier |
| Perlas (Spanish) |
Street dealer (heroin) |
| Pill houses |
Residences where pills are illicitly sold |
| Pill ladies |
Female senior citizens who sell OxyContin |
| Point |
A needle |
| Pony packs |
Folded paper used to package drugs |
| Pumping |
Selling crack |
| Push |
Sell drugs |
| Push shorts |
To cheat; sell short amounts |
| Pusher |
Metal hanger or umbrella rod used to scrape residue out of crack stems; one who sells drugs |
| Rap |
Criminally charged; to talk with someone |
| Raspberry |
Female who trades sex for crack or money to buy crack |
| Rider |
5 kilograms of heroin sometimes provided at no cost per 100 kilograms of cocaine imported from Colombia |
| Rock house |
Place where crack is sold and smoked |
| Rock star |
Female who trades sex for crack or money to buy crack; a person who uses rock cocaine |
| Rollers |
Police |
| Runners |
People who sell drugs for others; adolescents who act as liaisons between sellers and buyers |
| Sam |
Federal narcotics agent |
| Sancocho (Spanish) |
To steal |
| Satch |
Papers, letter, cards, clothing, etc., saturated with drug solution (Used to smuggle drugs into prisons or hospitals) |
| Score |
Purchase drugs |
| Scratch |
Money |
| Server |
Crack dealer |
| Set |
Place where drugs are sold; Talwin and ritalin combination is injected and produces an effect similar to the effect of heroin mixed with cocaine. |
| Shoppers |
Individuals who buy drugs for others, sometimes keeping some of the drug for themselves |
| Stash areas |
Drug storage and distribution areas |
| Steerer |
Person who directs customers to spots for buying crack; worker who directs buyers to where drugs are sold |
| Step on |
Dilute drugs |
| Strawberry |
LSD; female who trades sex for crack or money to buy crack |
| Swallower |
An individual used as a drug courier |
| Taste |
Heroin; small sample of drugs |
| Taxing |
Price paid to enter a crackhouse; charging more per vial depending on race of customer or if not a regular customer |
| Tester |
Individual who is given a drug early in the day by a dealer and then spreads the word about the drug throughout the rest of the day |
| Thoroughbred |
Drug dealer who sells pure narcotics |
| Toss up |
Crack Cocaine; female who trades sex for crack or money to buy crack |
| Tout |
Person who introduces buyers to sellers |
| Touter |
Person who stands on the street and advertises a drug |
| Trapped vehicles |
Vehicles with secret compartments used to conceal drugs |
| Travel agent |
LSD supplier |
| Trey |
Small rock of crack cocaine |
| Triple folds |
Folded paper used to package drugs |
| Turf |
Place where drugs are sold |
| Uncle |
Federal agents |
| Wasted |
Under the influence of drugs; murdered |
| Whites |
Amphetamine; folded paper used to package drugs |
| Working |
Selling crack |
| Zoomer |
Individual who sells fake crack and then flees |
