Now updated for CSW19. New words, if any, and new inflections of existing words, are shown in red.
| acidhead | a person who takes hallucinogenic drugs. |
| addict | one who addicted. |
| ambeer | the spittle produced when chewing tobacco. |
| amphetamine | a synthetic, potentially habit-forming drug used as an appetite suppressant and in the treatment of narcolepsy. |
| anticigarette | opposed to the use of cigarettes. |
| anticrack | opposed to the use of crack cocaine. |
| antidrug | opposed to illicit drugs. |
| antimarijuana | opposed to the use of marijuana. |
| antipot | opposed to the use of pot. |
| antismoke | opposed to smoking. |
| antismoker | one opposed to smoking. |
| antismoking | opposed to smoking. |
| antitobacco | opposed to the use of tobacco. |
| antiweed | opposed to smoking. |
| bacco | tobacco > BACCOS or BACCOES. |
| baccy | tobacco. |
| basehead | a habitual user of freebase or crack. |
| basuco | an impure mixture of coca paste and cocaine > BASUCOS. |
| beedi beedie bidi | a hand rolled cigarette > BEEDIES, BIDIS. |
| benj | cannabis, Indian hemp, used as a weak narcotic > BENJES. |
| benny | an amphetamine tablet. |
| bhang | cannabis, Indian hemp, used as a weak narcotic. |
| bidi | see BEEDI. |
| biftah bifter | a cannabis cigarette. |
| blunthead | a frequent user of marijuana. |
| breadhead | a drug-dealer who is not an addict, but is motivated by money alone. |
| bright | a light-hued tobacco > BRIGHTS. |
| burley | an American thin-leaved tobacco; (verb) to scatter bait on water > BURLEYS, BURLEYING, BURLEYED. |
| bute | a capsule of phenylbutazone, an analgesic and antipyretic used in the treatment of rheumatic disorders and also, illegally, in horse-doping. |
| calumet | an ornamented ceremonial pipe. |
| canaster | a kind of tobacco for smoking, made of the dried leaves, coarsely broken. |
| candyman | (US slang) a drug-pusher. |
| cannabic | of or like CANNABIS. |
| cannabin | a resin obtained from the dried leaves and flowers of the cannabis plant, containing the active principle of the drug. |
| cannabis | hemp; a narcotic drug obtained from hemp. |
| caporal | a coarse, strong, dark TOBACCO. |
| cavendish | leaf TOBACCO softened, sweetened, and pressed into plugs or cakes. |
| charlie | (sl.) cocaine. |
| cheroot sheroot | a cigar cut square at either end. |
| chibouk chibouque | a long Turkish pipe, usually with a mouthpiece of amber and a bowl of baked clay. |
| chillum | the part of a HOOKAH containing the bowl and tobacco-balls. |
| chocaholic chocoholic | one addicted to chocolate. |
| cig | a cigarette. |
| cigar | a roll of tobacco leaf for smoking. |
| cigaret cigarette | finely-cut tobacco rolled in thin paper. |
| cigarillo | a small cigar > CIGARILLOS. |
| cigarlike | like a CIGAR. |
| ciggie ciggy | cigarette. |
| claro | a light-coloured, mild cigar > CLAROS or CLAROES. |
| clocker | a 24-hour dealer in drugs. |
| coca | the dried leaf of a South American shrub, chewed for its cocaine content. |
| cocain cocaine | an alkaloid obtained from coca leaves. |
| cocainism | a morbid condition caused by addiction to cocaine. |
| cocainist | one suffering from COCAINISM. |
| cokehead | a cocaine abuser. |
| colorado | referring to a medium strength of cigar. No —S. |
| crack | a highly addictive form of cocaine mixed with other substances (usu baking powder) and sold and used in small pellet-like pieces. |
| crackhead | a crack addict. |
| dadah | illegal drugs. |
| dagga | Indian hemp, smoked as a narcotic. |
| dex dexie dexy | a tablet of Dexedrine®, a sulfate used as a stimulant. |
| dimp | a cigarette butt. |
| doob doobie | a cannabis cigarette. |
| dope | an informal term for various drugs; (verb) to administer a drug to esp. an athlete or horse. |
| dopehead | a drug addict. |
| dottel dottle | unburnt and partially burnt tobacco caked in the bowl of a pipe; DOTTLE is also an adj. meaning foolish > DOTTLER, DOTTLEST. |
| dottled | full of DOTTLE, unburnt and partially burnt tobacco caked in the bowl of a pipe. |
| dowt | a cigarette end. |
| druggie | a drug addict. |
| drugster | a drug addict. |
| druggy | given to taking drugs > DRUGGIER, DRUGGIEST. |
| dudeen dudheen | a clay pipe. |
| durry | a cigarette > DURRIES. |
| etherism | addiction to the taking of ether. |
| etherist | someone who administers or takes ether. |
| foodie foody | one addicted to food. |
| freebase | to refine cocaine by heating it with ether. |
| freebaser | one who smokes FREEBASE, cocaine refined with ether. |
| gak | (slang) cocaine. |
| ganja ganjah | a resinous form of marijuana. |
| gasper | a cheap cigarette. |
| goofball | a barbiturate pill used as an exhilarant; a goofy person. |
| handroll | a cigarette rolled by hand. |
| hash hasheesh hashish | the leaves, shoots and resin of hemp, smoked as an intoxicant. |
| hashhead | a hashish addict. |
| hashish | see HASHEESH. |
| heroin | an addictive narcotic. |
| heroinism | addiction to heroin. |
| hooka hookah | a pipe with a long, flexible stem, so arranged that the smoke is cooled by being made to pass through water. |
| hophead | a drug addict. |
| hotbox | to smoke marijuana in an enclosed place > HOTBOXES, HOTBOXING, HOTBOXING. |
| hypo | to inject with a hypodermic needle > HYPOS, HYPOED, HYPOING. |
| ice | in drug slang, a highly synthesised form of methamphetamine. |
| jones | a drug addiction; (verb) to desire > JONESES, JONESING, JONESED. |
| joypop | to use habit-forming drugs occasionally > JOYPOPS, JOYPOPPING, JOYPOPPED. |
| joypopper | one who JOYPOPS, uses habit-forming drugs occasionally. |
| junkie | a narcotics addict. |
| junky | a narcotics addict; (adj.) rubbishy > JUNKIER, JUNKIEST. |
| kaif keef kef kief kif | a state of dreamy intoxication induced by e.g. CANNABIS. |
| kalian | a Persian HOOKAH. |
| kat khat qat | a shrub of E Africa, Arabia, etc, or specif its leaves, chewed or taken as tea for their stimulant effect. |
| keef | see KEF. |
| kef | see KEF. |
| ketamine | an anaesthetic and analgesic drug (also called, in drug slang, Special K). |
| kief | see KEF. |
| kif | see KEF. |
| killikinick kinnikinic kinnikinick kinnikinnick | a Native American smoking material, consisting of dried sumac leaves and willow or dogwood bark. |
| latakia | a superior quality of Turkish smoking TOBACCO. |
| laudanum | an OPIUM preparation. |
| loosies | cigarettes sold individually. |
| lude quaalude | a type of sedative pill. |
| lysergide | the drug LSD. |
| maccabaw maccaboy maccoboy | a kind of snuff. |
| maduro | a dark-coloured cigar > MADUROS. |
| mainline | to inject drugs intravenously. |
| mainliner | one who takes a narcotic intravenously. |
| marihuana marijuana | Indian hemp; its dried flowers or leaves smoked as an intoxicant. |
| maryjane | marijuana. |
| mescalin mescaline mezcaline | the principal alkaloid in MESCAL, used as a hallucinogen. |
| mescalism | the habitual use of MESCALIN as an intoxicant. |
| meth methamphetamine | a methyl derivative of amphetamine with similar but longer lasting effects, now seldom used in medicine but widespread as a drug of abuse. |
| misocapnic | hating tobacco smoke. |
| mundungo mundungus | a foul-smelling tobacco > MUNDUNGUSES. [A joking adaptation from Sp. mondongo, tripe]. |
| narc | a narcotic. |
| narco | a narcotic > NARCOS. |
| narcotic | any drug producing torpor. |
| narcotise narcotize | to subject to the influence of a narcotic. |
| narcotism | narcosis; the state of being narcotized. |
| narcotist | one who takes narcotics. |
| narcotize | see NARCOTISE. |
| narghile narghilly narghily nargile nargileh nargily | a HOOKAH, an Oriental tobacco pipe in which smoke is drawn through water by a long tube. |
| nicotian | of or relating to tobacco; (noun) a tobacco-smoker. |
| nicotinism | a morbid state induced by excessive use of tobacco. |
| nonaddict | one who is not an addict. |
| nontobacco | a product not containing tobacco. |
| nyaope | (S. Afr.) another name for the drug whoonga. |
| opium | an addictive NARCOTIC. |
| opiumism | addiction to OPIUM. |
| paan | betel leaf. |
| panatela panatella panetela panetella | a long thin cigar. |
| perfecto | a large tapering cigar > PERFECTOS. |
| perique | a strong, black, Louisiana tobacco. |
| peyote peyotl | a Mexican intoxicant made from cactus tops. |
| peyotism | the taking of PEYOTE, esp. as part of a religious ceremony. |
| peyotist | one who practises PEYOTISM, the taking of PEYOTE, esp. as part of a religious ceremony. |
| peyotl | see PEYOTE. |
| pillhead | a regular, usu. addicted taker of sedative or stimulant pills. |
| pot | cannabis in any of its forms. |
| pothead | a habitual taker of POT. |
| psilocin | a hallucinogenic drug found in a Mexican mushroom. |
| psilocybin | an alkaloid which is the phosphate ester of psilocin and is present in several toadstools (esp. of the genus Psilocybe), producing hallucinogenic effects similar to those of LSD but milder and more short-lived. |
| psychedelic | a drug that gives its users the illusion of heightened perception and deep understanding, while actually making them talk complete drivel. |
| psychotoxic | damaging to the mind, especially of addictive drugs. |
| quaalude | see LUDE. |
| rappee | a pungent kind of snuff made from the darker and ranker kinds of tobacco leaves. [Fr. (tabac) rape, rasped]. |
| reefer | a cigarette containing MARIJUANA. |
| rollie | a hand-rolled cigarette. |
| roofie | a tablet of a sedative drug. |
| scag | heroin; (verb) to make a tear in cloth > SCAGS, SCAGGING, SCAGGED. |
| schmeck shmek | a taste or sniff; heroin. |
| schmecker | a heroin user. |
| segar | a cigar. |
| sheroot | see CHEROOT. |
| shisha | a pipe with a long, flexible stem, so arranged that the smoke is cooled by being made to pass through water, aka HOOKAH. |
| shmek | see SCHMECK. |
| shroom | a magic mushroom; (verb) to take magic mushrooms. |
| shroomer | one who takes magic mushrooms. |
| sinsemilla | a kind of marijuana. |
| siri sirih | the betel pepper, which is chewed in the East as a mild stimulant. |
| skag | heroin. |
| skyf | a cigarette or substance for smoking; (verb) to smoke > SKYFS, SKYFING, SKYFED. |
| slanger | a dealer in drugs. |
| smackhead | a person who is addicted to heroin. |
| smokable smokeable | that can be smoked. |
| smoker | one that smokes. |
| snuff | a powdered preparation of tobacco or other substance for inhaling through the nose; (verb) to sniff, examine with the nose. |
| sneesh sneeshan sneeshin sneeshing | (a pinch of) snuff. |
| snoose | chewing tobacco. |
| speed | (sl.) amphetamine. |
| speedball | to take cocaine and heroin taken intravenously. |
| speedfreak | an amphetamine addict. |
| spliff | a marijuana cigarette. |
| stapple | the stem of a tobacco pipe. |
| stogey stogie stogy | a long inexpensive cigar. |
| stompie | a cigarette butt; a short man. |
| stummel | a bowl and adjacent part of a pipe. |
| sulph | (sl.) amphetamine sulphate. |
| theic | one who drinks too much tea. |
| tik | the drug methamphetamine in crystal form. |
| tina | (sl.) crystal meth. |
| tobacco | the carcinogenic and malodorous leaves of any American solanaceous plant of the genus Nicotiana, which some people like to roll into thin tubes, stick in their mouth and set fire to > TOBACCOES or TOBACCOS. |
| toke | a puff on a cigarette; (verb) to puff. |
| toker | one that TOKES, puffs. |
| trank tranq | a tranquilliser. |
| trippy | characteristic of an illicit drug trip > TRIPPIER, TRIPPIEST. |
| vape | to inhale nicotine vapour from an electronic cigarette. |
| vaper | one who VAPES. |
| virginia | a type of flue-cured tobacco grown originally in Virginia. |
| weedhead | one who uses a lot of marijuana. |
| whoonga | a narcotic substance smoked as a recreational drug in some parts of South Africa. |
| yabba | a methamphetamine, a stimulant drug. |
| zol | a cannabis cigarette. |