TeenSpeak What Your Teen Really Means Series 2 - Drug Related Words

In the last installment of the TeenSpeak Series we examined words used by teenagers that relate to sex. This installment is perhaps more crucial, in that the drug culture can mean the difference in life and death. Your awareness of the youth drug culture may help you know when it is time to intervene. Listening to your teen's language and behaviors can mean the difference between the destruction of their life on alcohol and drugs, or the early intervention to help them fight the pervasive drug use in their world.

As with the list of sex related words, this is not exhaustive. It will, however, give you information and clues you need to listen for to find out if your child or his/her friends are involved in drugs.

Good communication is essential to good parenting. You have to know what they are talking about in order to ever convince your teenager to talk to you.

The words that follow are common, slang terms for drugs, dealers, highs, and drug related paraphernalia.

Teen Vocabulary: Drug and Alcohol Related Drugs

baco, po-po, heat, laws, the man, one time - police

baked - effect of smoking marijuana

bammer, brown frown, dirty brown - cheap, brown leaf marijuana

bent - high or drunk; skewed perception of reality

bird - 36oz of cocaine

biscuit, gat, glock, heat, heater - gun (also hammer, tool)

blazin - light up marijuana, speaking of opposite sex as good looking or hot

blow - cocaine; also used as verb to say something "sucks"

blunt - cigar filled with marijuana

boost, deebo, gafel, gank, jack , mack, punk- to steal

bowl - object used to chop and prepare marijuana

bud, cheba, dank, dub, fatty, grass, herb, jaba, leaf, lye, Mary, spliff- marijuana

buggin' out - acting weird

bust a cap, smoke - shoot someone

bust a grill - hit someone in the mouth

candy, E, X - ecstasy

choppin - preparing marijuana

chronic - potent marijuana

clucka - cocaine addict

cooker - cup or bottle cap used to cook down drugs; someone who cooks drugs

dime - $10 bag of marijuana

Drop the dime - tell on someone

Deuce-duece - 22 pistol

nickel bag - $5 bag of marijuana

dose - applying liquid LSD to food or patch to cause hallucinogenic trip

faded - high on drugs or alcohol