释义 |
cooker noun- any object used to heat heroin preparatory to injecting it US
- The cookers are metal caps off wine bottles with the cork lining taken out. — Willard Motley, Let No Man Write My Epitaph, p. 157, 1958
- A gland in his neck was making the ducts in his mouth water at the thought of drugs: cooker, matches, needle, eye-dropper, and pacifier. — Clarence Cooper Jr, The Scene, p. 15, 1960
- When he awakes in the morning, he reaches instantly for his “works”–eyedropper, needle (“spike,” he calls it), and bottle top (“cooker”). — James Mills, The Panic in Needle Park, p. 14, 1966
- Joe Green, better known to his friends and acquaintances as Jo-Jo, poured the rest of the heroin out of a small piece of tin foil into the Wild Irish Rose wine bottle top that had been converted into what drug users call a cooker. — Donald Goines, Crime Partners, p. 7, 1978
- a person who prepares crack cocaine US
- — Terry Williams, Crackhouse, p. 147, 1992
- a person or thing that excels or excites US, 1943
- Baby, this is Bernie, Bernie is a real heavy cooker on piano. — Ross Russell, The Sound, p. 190, 1961
- — Stewart L. Tubbs and Sylvia Moss, Human Communication, p. 120, 1974
- in an illegal drug enterprise, a person who tests the purity of a drug US
- His father was a “cooker”—a tester who finds out how pure the imported heroin is before it gets distributed to dealers. — John Gimenez, Up Tight!, p. 50, 1967
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