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Definitions

Amped:
High on speed, in the way that is desired and sought by users; see also: Over-amped.

Bag Whore:
Cruising for drugs more than the hook-up, a bag whore is the person who is always happy to use your stash but never has or buys speed of their own; a person who replies to “has favors” and “can host” profiles but never provides the speed.

Bump:
A small amount of speed, usually less than a line, most often snorted.

Cook:
Someone who manufactures meth.

Crank:
A variety of speed commonly seen as “dirty” or “dishwater”; cheap, crappy speed; see also: Dick Dope, Raw.

Crash:
Coming down from high. Symptoms include physical exhaustion, sleepiness, depression and mental confusion.

Crystal:
The kind of speed we seek out, in its “pure” crystalline form, looking like bits of glass or ice; see also: Shards.

Dick Dope:
Also called Dirty Dope, this term refers to cheap, less-than-pure (though very little of what we get is truly pure, right?) speed.

Hit:
The amount usually ingested via whatever means of administration one has chosen; this can be a Bump or a Line or whatever other amount one uses.

Line:
Think the 1970s and cocaine; a literal line of powdered speed ready for snorting.

Over-Amped:
Higher than you want to be, too much of a good thing way too soon.

Point:
A syringe; also called Rigs, Sets, Fits, Pencils… check at your local needle exchange and ask what they call them.

Quarter (gram):
Minimum purchase amount.

Ramping:
Using incrementally larger amounts over an accustomed, usually short period of time in a an attempt to reach the desired effect; this is something that comes with practice.

Raw:
As in Crank and Dick Dope above, this is crappy, dishwater dope akin to old-school biker speed.

(Courtesy of Tweaker.org)

 

 

 

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