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crack cocaine
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Princeton's WordNet
crack, crack cocaine, tornadonoun
a purified and potent form of cocaine that is smoked rather than snorted; highly addictive
Wiktionary
crack cocainenoun
A mixture of baking soda and cocaine in solid form that is smoked in a pipe as a narcotic.
crack cocainenoun
A mixture of salt substitute, ether, and cocaine in a semi-liquid form, which is far more potent than if made with baking soda alone.
Etymology: So named due to the break up (crack, cracking) of crystals of cocaine during its manufacture.
Wikipedia
Crack cocaine
Crack cocaine, also known simply as crack or rock, is a free base form of cocaine that can be smoked. Crack offers a short, intense high to smokers. The Manual of Adolescent Substance Abuse Treatment calls it the most addictive form of cocaine. Crack first saw widespread use as a recreational drug in primarily impoverished neighborhoods in New York City, Philadelphia, Baltimore, Washington, D.C., Los Angeles, and Miami in late 1984 and 1985; its rapid increase in use and availability is sometimes termed as the "crack epidemic".
Wikidata
Crack cocaine
Crack cocaine is the freebase form of cocaine that can be smoked. It may also be termed rock, work, hard, iron, cavvy, base, or just crack; it is said to be the most addictive form of cocaine, although this has been contested. Crack rocks offer a short but intense high to smokers. Crack appeared primarily in impoverished inner-city neighborhoods in New York, Los Angeles, and Miami in late 1984 and 1985.
U.S. National Library of Medicine
Crack Cocaine
The purified, alkaloidal, extra-potent form of cocaine. It is smoked (free-based), injected intravenously, and orally ingested. Use of crack results in alterations in function of the cardiovascular system, the autonomic nervous system, the central nervous system, and the gastrointestinal system. The slang term "crack" was derived from the crackling sound made upon igniting of this form of cocaine for smoking.
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Chaldean Numerology
The numerical value of crack cocaine in Chaldean Numerology is: 9
Pythagorean Numerology
The numerical value of crack cocaine in Pythagorean Numerology is: 5
Examples of crack cocaine in a Sentence
It was a slow unveiling of my sexuality that was of course, very difficult for us, and then… I wind up as a crack cocaine addict [in 2002] after having been sober for 21 years. And Carly went through all of that with me. So the unraveling is rather dramatic.
You have to go back years to understand why Amir Lockes parents have no knocks, they were developed as a tool, through courts, for the preservation of evidence... primarily crack cocaine. That's no longer the case, and hasn't been for at least ten years. ( We)'ve been strongly teaching, advocating, for other alternatives.
We will not tolerate a business facilitating illegal drug activity by selling drug paraphernalia, our efforts will curtail the ease of obtaining items needed to use crack cocaine.
Former Toronto Mayor Rob Ford:
I do not use crack cocaine, nor am I an addict of crack cocaine.
Back in the Wham! days, he experimented with cocaine, but he didn’t really like it, in the early ‘90s, George got into ecstasy. But then Anselmo Feleppa, who was no doubt the love of his life and his soulmate, died in 1993 of AIDS. He was racked with pain. He turned to pot and became a full-time stoner. His album ‘Older' was made completely under the influence of pot. Then around 2003, 2004, he got into a party drug called GHB. In my opinion, more than anything, that’s the drug that did him in. But he didn’t stop there. He got into crack cocaine and was arrested for possession of that.
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- الكوكايينArabic
- κρακ κοκαΐνηGreek
- crack de cocainaSpanish
- crackFrench
- kokainIndonesian
- crack cocaínaPortuguese
- кокаинRussian
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