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speedball
noun- a mixture of a central nervous system stimulant (especially cocaine) and a narcotic (especially heroin) US, 1936
- “I’ve seen ’em shootin’ speedballs—half a cap of C ’n half a cap of H together.” — Nelson Algren, The Man with the Golden Arm, p. 213, 1949
- Goldy shook two small papers of crystal cocaine and morphine into the spoon and cooked a C and M speedball over the flame. — Chester Himes, A Rage in Harlem, p. 38, 1957
- One morning you wake up and take a speed ball and feel bugs under your skin. — William Burroughs, Naked Lunch, p. 19, 1957
- Leslie thought of copping–four girls and four boys. A speed-ball. — Clarence Cooper Jr, The Scene, p. 36, 1960
- Cocaine and bombitas are both stimulants and combined with heroin, a depressant, they produce an electrifying “rush” or “flash” far more pleasurable to the addict than heroin alone. — James Mills, The Panic in Needle Park, p. 36, 1966
- And don’t take but one, it’s all you’ll need, it’s a speedball. — Chester Himes, Come Back Charleston Blue, p. 39, 1966
- He closed his eyes as if he were remembering his last speedball. — Nathan Heard, Howard Street, p. 186, 1968
- I started capping “H” with my “C.” I’d mix them and shoot speedballs. — Iceberg Slim (Robert Beck), Pimp, p. 275, 1969
- Jim was the only guy I knew that had a shooting gallery where you could cop a speedball by buying a half cap of girl and a half cap of boy[.] — A.S. Jackson, Gentleman Pimp, p. 98, 1973
- [H]e suggested he try a speedball, which was a “steal” at fifty cents. Barrett wasn’t sure exactly what was contained in a speedball and was far too cooled-out to pull a Q & A scene to relieve his ignorance. — Ed Sanders, Tales of Beatnik Glory, p. 126, 1975
- • — Jim Carroll, Forced Entries, 1987
- I have never liked speedballs, the combining of cocaine and heroin in a single shot. — Jim Carroll, Forced Entries, p. 1, 1987
- When I was using both stuff and speed, it was something. I’ve used the expression before–it’s the poor man’s speedball. — Herbert Huncke, Guilty of Everything, p. 190, 1990
- Every morning he woke up to something like morning sickness and had to get his speedball right away, but he wasn’t addicted. — William T. Vollman, Whores for Gloria, p. 69, 1991
- Then you had John Belushi’s speedball death. — Editors of Ben is Dead, Retrohell, p. 60, 1997
- He’s sitting on his waterbed doing speedballs with some naked Dutch hitchhiker he picked up at the bus stop. — Kenneth Lonergan, This is Our Youth, p. 41, 2000
- He overdosed on a cocaine and heroin “speedball” made with a particularly lethal strain of heroin nicknamed Red Rum. — Uncut, p. 62, May 2001
- an alcoholic beverage fortified with a drug US
- — Joseph E. Ragen and Charles Finston, Inside the World’s Toughest Prison, p. 819, 1962: “Penitentiary and underworld glossary”
- a rissole AUSTRALIA, 1965
- The cook with his speed-balls delightful[.] — Keith Garvey, Absolutely Australian, p. 18, 1979
- a fast racehorse US
- What I’d do was look for a race with one outstanding speedball in it and then bet twenty-five, thirty dollars on it. — Gary Mayer, Bookie, p. 69, 1974
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