Drug And Alcohol Slang Terms

Hope Harbor Wellness is dedicated to supporting individuals grappling with substance abuse and mental health challenges, as well as their loved ones seeking understanding and assistance. Recognizing the various drug and alcohol slang terms associated with different drugs can be pivotal in identifying substance use and taking the necessary steps toward recovery. This comprehensive dictionary aims to shed light on common street names for a wide range of substances, empowering you with the knowledge to seek help and support.

General Drug Slang

Understanding general slang terms related to drug use can provide additional insights into substance abuse and help in recognizing signs of addiction.

Person Who Uses Drugs Heavily

• Addict, burnout, dopehead, doper, druggie, fiend, hophead, junkie, stoner, user, zombie

Person Who Sells Drugs Illegally

• Cooker, dealer, dope peddler, dummy man, hookup, mad hatter, middleman, mule, pill lady, plug, potreneur, pump, pusher, source

Addiction

• Bag, bent, dependence, hang-up, hooked, jones(ing), kick, monkey on your back, strung out, substance use disorder

Withdrawal

• Around the turn (after a period of withdrawal), cold turkey (completely stopping drug use), clucking, detox, DT’s, jonesing, shakes, super-flu

Drug Slang for Alcohol

Although alcohol is legal for adults, misuse remains a significant concern. Being familiar with its slang terms can aid in recognizing potential abuse.

• Common Slang Terms:
  • Booze
  • Hooch
  • Sauce
  • Brew
  • Juice
• Someone Who Drinks To Excess:
  • Alcoholic, boozer, drinker, drunk, drunkard, drunken, heavy drinker, inebriate, problem drinker
• Under the Influence:
  • Addled, bashed, blitzed, blotto, boozy, canned, cockeyed, crocked, drunken, fried, gassed, hammered, impaired, inebriate, intoxicated, juiced, lit, lit up, loaded, looped, oiled, pickled, pie-eyed, pished, pissed, plastered, potted, ripped, sloshed, smashed, sottish, soused, sozzled, squiffy, stewed, stiff, stinking, stoned, tanked, tiddly, tight, tipsy, wasted, wet, wiped out, zonked
• Amounts:
  • Chaser, double, dram, dumpy, half, measure, nip, pint, shot, stubby, tallboy, tumbler

Drug Slang for Adderall

Adderall is a prescription stimulant commonly used to treat Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) and narcolepsy. However, it is frequently misused for its energy-boosting and focus-enhancing effects, particularly among students and young adults.

• Common Slang Terms:
  • Addys
  • Beans
  • Bennies
  • Black Beauties
  • Blue Pill
  • Copilots
  • Dexies
  • Pep Pills
  • Red Dexies
  • Red Pep
  • Smart Pills
  • Speed
  • Study Buddies
  • Truck Drivers
  • Uppers
  • Zing
• Under the Influence:
  • Hyperactive, focused, energized
• Using Adderall:
  • Taking Addys to stay awake, using smart pills to enhance study sessions, abusing uppers to increase productivity or party longer
• Amounts:
  • Often referred to by the number of pills or dosage, such as “a few beans” or “a couple of uppers”
• Slang for Users:
  • Students, overachievers, focus freaks
• Paraphernalia:
  • Crushing pills to snort, dissolving tablets for injection

Drug Slang for Marijuana

Marijuana is one of the most widely used substances, known by numerous slang terms. It is typically smoked or ingested for its relaxing and euphoric effects.

• Common Slang Terms:
  • Weed
  • Pot
  • Hashish or Hash
  • Green
  • Bud
  • Grass
  • Trees
  • Reefer
  • Herb
  • Mary Jane or Aunt Mary
  • Ganja
  • Hemp
  • Dope
  • Chronic
  • Kush
  • Sinsemilla
  • Purple Haze
  • Skunk
  • Cannabis
  • 420
  • Stems
  • Smoke
  • Doja or Dojo
  • Jamaican Gold
  • Catnip
  • Leaf, Gold Leaf
  • Blue Crush
  • Khalifa
  • Stavia
  • Green Goblin
  • African Bush
  • Zambi
  • Colorado Cocktail
  • Broccoli
• Under the Influence:
  • Baked, blazed, blitzed, blown, blown out, blunted, bread, burned, caned, crossfaded (when also drunk), crunched, crunk (when also drunk), dankrupt, faded, flame-broiled, geeked, high, high as a kite, keyed, krunked, lifted, lit, lit up, ripped, sloppy, smoked, stoned, zoned
• Slang for Users:
  • Airhead, blazer, bong rat, dankhead, doper, druggie, ent, hash head, herbalist, herbivore, kieffer, pothead, smoker, stoner, stonette, toker, weedhead
• Paraphernalia:
  • Blunt (cigar stuffed with marijuana), bowl, bong, bubbler, doobie, fatty, gravity bong, J, jay, joint (wrapping paper and marijuana), left-handed cigarette, one-hitter, percolator, piece, pipe, rig, roach, spliff, vape, water pipe

Drug Slang for Cocaine

Cocaine is a powerful stimulant with a high potential for addiction, often snorted, smoked, or injected to produce a short-lived burst of energy and euphoria.

• Common Slang Terms:
  • Coke
  • Blow
  • Rock
  • Crack
  • Yayo
  • Snow, White, Blanco
  • Sniff
  • Sneeze
  • Nose Candy
  • Bernice
  • Toot
  • Line
  • Dust
  • Flakes
  • Angel Powder
  • Coca-Cola
  • Heaven Dust
  • Devil’s Dandruff
  • Rail
  • Blizzard
  • Big C
  • Paradise White
  • Racehorse Charlie
  • Sleigh Ride
  • White Lady
  • Cecil
  • Chevy, BMW, Audi
  • C-Dust
  • Crusty Treats
  • Double Bubble
  • Death Valley
  • Gold Dust
  • Movie Star Drug
  • A-1
  • Belushi
  • Candy
  • Florida Snow
  • Icing
  • Zip
• Crack Cocaine Slang:
  • 501s, Bump, Candy, Ice, White Ball, Devil Smoke, Pony, Nine, Bomb, Blow Cocaine, Breakfast of Champions, CD, Slab, Eye Opener, Kryptonite, Speed Boat, Yale, Apple Jack, Nuggets, Dime Special, Beemer, Cloud, Pony White Ball
• Under the Influence:
  • Bipping (snorting coke and heroin), blow blue, blow coke, crisscrossing (snorting coke and heroin), do a line, do a rail, freebase, go skiing, hit a wack, hitting the slopes, ride the rails, snort
• Slang for Users:
  • Boogahead, cokehead, coke hound, cokey, cokie, hardliner, snowblower, snow bird, snow bunny
• Using Cocaine:
  • Bumping, hitting a line, doing a rail, snorting
• Amounts:
  • Bump, brick, hit, key bump, eightball, kilo, line, rail
• Paraphernalia:
  • Crack pipe, crystal ship, devil’s dk, glass dk, pookie, rock pipe, stem, straight shooter, whistle

Drug Slang for Heroin

Heroin is an opioid with a high risk of overdose and dependency, typically injected, sniffed, snorted, or smoked to induce a numb, euphoric state.

• Common Slang Terms:
  • H, Big H, Capital H
  • Smack
  • Dope
  • China White
  • Horse
  • Skag
  • Junk
  • Black Tar, Black
  • Brown Sugar
  • Mexican Brown, Brown
  • Mud
  • Dragon
  • Boy
  • Thunder
  • Skunk
  • Snow
  • Sheep
  • Roofing Tar
  • Tootsie Roll
  • Wings
  • Cement
  • Salt
  • Chocolate
  • Diesel
  • Antifreeze
  • Bird
  • Capital
  • Aunt Hazel
  • Brick Gun
  • DOA
  • Black Olives
• Under the Influence:
  • Dosed, numbed, sedated
• Slang for Users:
  • Channel swimmer, chipper (occasional user), cotton shooter, hype, jolly popper (occasional user), junkie, junker, poison people, schmecker, sleepwalker
• Using Heroin:
  • Blow, chase the dragon, cooking (preparing heroin for injection), cook down, crangbustin (chewing tobacco with heroin), getting well, give wings (teach someone to use), gravy, jack up, shoot, shoot up

Drug Slang for Methamphetamine

Methamphetamine is a highly addictive stimulant affecting the central nervous system, known for its long-lasting high and severe comedown.

• Common Slang Terms:
  • Meth
  • Crystal
  • Ice
  • Glass
  • Crank
  • Speed
  • Chalk
  • Tweak
  • Cristy
  • Tina
  • Crissy
  • Glass
  • Go
  • Ice
  • Shards
  • Speed
  • Hot Ice
  • Zip
  • Soap Dope
  • Aqua
  • Bump
  • Colorado Rockies
  • Batu
  • Methlies
  • Shabu
  • Tine
  • Trash
  • Hiropon
  • L.A. Ice
  • Yellow Barn
• Under the Influence:
  • Blow clouds, clouds, smokin rain, tweaking, twirling
• Slang for Users:
  • Cranker, cranker man, geeker, jibhead, meth head, meth maggot, meth monster, smack head, speed freak, tweaker
• Using Meth:
  • Blow clouds, tweaking
• Paraphernalia:
  • Booger pipe, bowlo, bubble, chalet, glass rose, jib whistle, monkey crusher, oil burner, peezo, pelo, pipa, pookie, shwok, twizzal stick

Drug Slang for MDMA (Ecstasy / Molly)

MDMA, commonly known as Ecstasy, is a psychoactive drug used primarily in party settings for its euphoric and empathogenic effects.

• Common Slang Terms:
  • Ecstasy
  • Molly
  • E
  • X
  • Adam
  • Roll
  • Beans
  • Candy
  • Clarity
  • Dancing Shoes
  • Happy Pill
  • Hug, Hug Drug
  • Love Drug, Lover’s Speed, Love Potion #9
  • Mood Rocks
  • Scooby Snacks
  • E-Bomb
  • Rolling
• Under the Influence:
  • Blown up, buzzed, dosed, faced, faced out, flipping, loved up, peaking, rolling, roll balls, smacked, spun
• Slang for Users:
  • Cuddle puddle (multiple users), e-puddle (multiple users), peeper, pill face, thizz face

Drug Slang for Prescription Opioids

Prescription opioids are medications prescribed for pain relief but are often misused for their euphoric effects, leading to addiction and overdose risks.

Oxycodone (OxyContin)

• Common Slang Terms:
  • O.C., Oxycet, Oxycotton, Oxy, O, Ox
  • Hillbilly Heroin
  • Percs
  • Blue
  • 512s
  • Kickers
  • Killers
  • Roxy or Roxies

Hydrocodone (Vicodin)

• Common Slang Terms:
  • Vike, Watsons, Watson-387
  • Vics, Vicos
  • Hydros
  • Lorris
  • Fluff
  • Scratch
  • Norco
  • Idiot Pills
  • Tabs
  • 357s

Fentanyl

• Common Slang Terms:
  • Apache
  • China Girl, China, China Town
  • White, China White
  • Dance Fever
  • Friend
  • Good-Fella
  • Jackpot
  • Murder 8
  • Tango and Cash
  • TNT
  • Birria
  • Dragon’s Breath or Dragon
  • Facebook
  • Shoes
  • Toe Tag Dope
  • King Ivory
  • He-Man
  • Crazy One
  • Fent or Fenty
  • Lollipop
  • Butter
  • Jacket
• Fentanyl Mixed With Other Drugs:
  • Birria (Fentanyl and Heroin)
  • Chiva Loca (Fentanyl and Heroin)
  • Facebook (Fentanyl and Heroin in pill form)
  • Dirty Fentanyl (Fentanyl and Cocaine)
  • Takeover (Fentanyl and Cocaine)

Other Prescription Opioids

• Methadone:
  • Amidone, Dollies, Dolls, Done, Fizzies, Mud, Red Rock, Tootsie Roll
• Morphine:
  • Dreamer, God’s Drug, M, Miss Emma, Mister Blue, Monkey, Morpho, Unkie, White Stuff
• Oxycodone (OxyContin):
  • 512s, Blue, Hillbilly Heroin, Kickers, Killers, O, OC, Ox, Oxy, Oxy 80s, Oxycotton, Percs, Roxy or Roxies
• Suboxone:
  • Big Whites, Boxes, Bupes, Oranges, Saboxins, Sobos, Stops or stop signs, Subs

Drug Slang for Benzodiazepines

Benzodiazepines are prescription medications used to treat anxiety and insomnia but can be highly addictive and produce severe withdrawal symptoms.

• Common Slang Terms:
  • Xanax: Bars, Zannies, Handlebars, Xannies, Z-Bars, Zanbars or Xanbars, Bicycle Parts, Blue Footballs, Bricks, Handlebars, Planks, School Bus, Upjohn, White Boys, White Girls, Yellow Boys
  • Valium: V’s, Blue Vs
  • Klonopin: K-Pin, Super Valium
  • Ativan: Tranks
• Under the Influence:
  • Drowsy, out of it, sedated

Drug Slang for Depressants

Depressants lower the level of neurotransmitters within the central nervous system, causing reduced arousal, drowsiness, and a depressed mood.

Barbiturates

• Common Slang Terms:
  • Barbs, Phennies, Phenos, Red Birds, Reds, Red Bullets, Tooies, Yellow Jackets, Yellows, Downers, Blues, Blue Bullets, Blue Angels, Blue Tips, Blue Heavens, Blue Dolls, Blue Devil, Bluebirds, Green Frog, Pink Ladies, Marshmallow Reds, Rainbows, Strawberries, Quad or Quas, Bambs, Luds or Ludes, Softballs, Seggy

Drug Slang for Hallucinogens

Hallucinogens are psychoactive drugs that alter perception, thoughts, and consciousness, often causing hallucinations.

LSD

• Common Slang Terms:
  • Acid, L, Lucy, Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds, Cid, Blotter, Dots, Tabs, Doses, California Sunshine, Yellow Sunshine, Sunshine, Looney Toons, Superman, Cubes, Purple Haze, Purple Heart, Pink Panthers, Hippie, Golden Dragon, Battery Acid, Window Pane, Dental Floss, Black Star, Coffee, Pure Love, White Dust, Zen, Jesus Christ Acid, Electric Kool-Aid, Hawaiian Sunshine
• Under the Influence:
  • Tripping, hallucinating, altered perception

Psilocybin Mushrooms

• Common Slang Terms:
  • Shrooms, Magic Mushrooms, Boomers, Caps, Mushies, Blue Meanies, Cubes, Liberties, Liberty Caps, Magics
• Under the Influence:
  • Tripping, hallucinating, altered perception

DMT

• Common Slang Terms:
  • Dimitri, Businessman’s Trip, Fantasia, Spice (not to be confused with synthetic cannabinoids)

Ketamine

• Common Slang Terms:
  • K, Ket, Special K, Vitamin K, Green K, Super C, Super Acid, Special La Coke, Kit Kat, Purple, Cat Valium, Honey Oil, Jet, K-hole, Ket, Special K
• Under the Influence:
  • Dissociated, out of body, K-hole

Salvia

• Common Slang Terms:
  • Magic Mint, Maria Pastora, Sally-D, Shepherdess’ Herb, Diviner’s Sage

Drug Slang for Synthetic Drugs

Synthetic Marijuana

• Common Slang Terms:
  • Spice, K2, K2 Drug, K3 Drug, Bliss, Black Mamba, Yucatan Fire, Skunk, Genie, Bombay Blue, Solar Flare, Zohai, Joker, Kush, Kronic, Moon Rocks, Fake Weed

Synthetic Cathinones (Bath Salts)

• Common Slang Terms:
  • Bath Salts, Flakka, Bloom, Cloud Nine, Vanilla Sky, Scarface, Bliss, Drone, Energy-1, Meow Meow, Pure Ivory, Blue Silk, Stardust, Lunar Wave, Wicked
• Under the Influence:
  • Agitated, hyperactive, paranoid

Drug Slang for Inhalants

Inhalants are household chemicals inhaled to induce psychoactive effects, often causing lightheadedness and brief euphoria.

• Common Slang Terms:
  • Huff, Poppers, Moon Gas, Snappers, Bold, Rush, Air Blast, Glad, Hippie Crack, Oz, Discorama, Whiteout, Poor Man’s Pot, Nitrous Oxide
• Under the Influence:
  • Lightheaded, dizzy, euphoric

Drug Slang for Steroids

Steroids are synthetic drugs resembling hormones, abused to enhance muscle growth and athletic performance.

• Common Slang Terms:
  • Juice, Gym Candy, Pumpers, Roids

Drug Slang for Stimulants

Stimulants increase activity within the central nervous system, boosting energy and alertness.

Amphetamines

• Common Slang Terms:
  • Addys, Uppers, Beans, Black Beauties, Black Mollies, Black Birds, Pep Pills, Speed, Dexies, Zing, Study Buddies, Smart Pills, Morning Shots, Jelly Babies, Chunk, Amy, Diablos, French Blues, Cartwheels, Little Bombs, Greenies, Horse Head, Lid Poppers, Pixies, Diet Pills, Peaches, Sweeties, Wheels, Truck Drivers, Zoomers

Methamphetamines

• Common Slang Terms:
  • Crystal, Crystal Glass, Meth, Cristy, Tina, Crank, Crissy, Tweak, Glass, Ice, Shards, Go, Whizz, Chalk, Speed, Hot Ice, Zip, Soap Dope, Aqua, Bump, Colorado Rockies, Batu, Methlies, Shabu, Tine, Trash, Hiropon, L.A. Ice, Yellow Barn

Methylphenidate (Ritalin)

• Common Slang Terms:
  • Vitamin R, R-balls, Rids, Rit, Diet Coke, Kibbles and Bits, Kiddie Cocaine, Kiddie Coke, Pineapple, Poor Man’s Cocaine, R-ball, Skippy, Skittles, Smarties, Vitamin R
• Under the Influence:
  • Hyperactive, focused, energized