List of street names of drugs

A street name is a slang name given to a drug other than its popular or chemical names. Street names for drugs drastically change from place to place and time to time, and no absolute reliance should ever be placed on them. This list covers only English terms, though many such terms exist in other languages.

Alcohol

 * Booze
 * Brews - Referring to beer or ale
 * Brewskis - Referring to beer or ale
 * Cold One - Referring to beer or ale
 * Crunk Juice
 * Drink
 * Fire Water -- coined by Native Americans
 * Grandpa's Cough Syrup
 * Grog -- Australian slang
 * Hooch
 * Hard Stuff
 * Jesus Blood (red wine) -- coined by Michael Jackson
 * Jesus Juice (white wine) -- coined by Michael Jackson
 * Moonshine -- Referring to illegally made hard liquor
 * Piss - Australian
 * Sauce
 * Soup
 * Spirits

Amphetamine

 * Aimies
 * Amp
 * Bennies
 * Billy -- generally Amphetamine Sulphate
 * "Cross-tops"
 * Dexies -- from the brand name Dexedrine or the chemical name Dexamphetamine sulphate,
 * Go-ee -- generally Amphetamine Sulphate
 * Pep pills
 * Rippers
 * Sparklers
 * Speed -- generally Amphetamine Sulphate
 * ''Sulph  -- generally Amphetamine Sulphate
 * Uppers
 * Whiz -- generally Amphetamine Sulphate

Amyl nitrite

 * Amys
 * Animal -- play on 'Amyl'
 * DVD-Cleaner
 * Liquid gold -- descriptive
 * Locker room
 * Pearls
 * Poppers -- may be any of Amyl nitrite, Alkyl nitrites, or Butyl nitrite
 * Rush
 * Snappers
 * Stephen Armstrongs

Anabolic steroids

 * Arnolds -- from Arnold Schwarzenegger's known steroid use in the past
 * Gym candy
 * Iron Brew -- steroids such as Durabolin, Stanozolol, Dianabol; this should not be confused with the soft drink Irn-Bru
 * Juice -- steroids in general
 * Roids -- steroids in general
 * Gear -- steroids in general

Cannabis

 * Al Green
 * Afi -- short for Afgahni variety of marijuana characterized by seedless buds
 * B -- shortened form of Bud
 * Bad One -- refers to high-quality cannabis
 * Banana ramma -- refers to the banana after taste of some weed
 * Bammer -- bad marijuana
 * Banji -- what the Hadza, modern day foragers of East Africa, call it
 * Bank Head Bud
 * Banzai Buds -- term used in Florida by Asian smokers
 * BC Bud -- hydroponically grown marijuana from British Columbia, usually Vancouver, known for its high THC content
 * Beaster -- marijuana from Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
 * Benz -- A £10 bag of cannabis. 1.5 - 1.8g
 * Bigfoot -- a term used in some parts of Alabama that can refer to marijuana, or to the high itself
 * Black -- marijuana with tobacco mixed in; more popular in Europe
 * Blaze -- to smoke marijuana
 * Blowhead
 * Blunt -- a marijuana cigar; named for the Philly (Blunt)
 * Bob Hope -- rhyming slang for "dope"
 * Bomb -- high potency marijuana
 * Boom
 * Bowgma-Chuff
 * Bread -- a small amount can be referred to as a slice; bread is said to be thrown when ingested
 * Broccoli -- Slang term, coined by Bay Area Lyricist E-40 Belafonte
 * Bud -- the buds of the cannabis plant
 * Buddha
 * Bun -- To smoke cannabis - (bunning)
 * Bun-up -- To participate or hold a smoking 'session'.
 * Bunk -- low quality grass
 * Burn One -- To smoke a blunt or joint
 * Bush
 * Cann -- short for Cannabis
 * Cereal -- bowl of "cereal" used in telephone conversation to avoid illicit terminology
 * CD's -- SE New England slang that was popularized on public access TV
 * Cheeba
 * Cheebong
 * Cheese
 * Chocolate Thai
 * Chrin
 * Chro - A South London slang term applied to particularly potent cannabis.(Chronic)
 * Chrowed out - A term used for someone heavily under the influence of cannabis
 * Chucky -- (NY) Bronx term for marijuana that is of low to average quality with a slow burn
 * Chronic or Chron -- high quality marijuana (also used to refer to marijuana laced with crack)
 * Clone -- seedless marijuana
 * Cocktails -- mix of hash and skunk in one spliff
 * Cocoa Puff -- marijuana mixed with cocaine, usually sprinkled on top of a pipe or in a spliff
 * Collie Weed -- Jamaican terminology
 * Conversational Bread Throwing -- a euphemism for smoking marijuana, especially in a group
 * Creeper Weed (or Creeper) -- marijuana that has a high that comes on slowly
 * Crippy - term used in Florida locales, referring to any general high-grade cannabis (Compare to "regs" - regular-grade cannabis )
 * Cush (or Kush) -- ancient variety from the Kingdom of Cush in what is now Sudan; it grows wild along the banks of the upper Nile River
 * Dagga -- South African slang
 * Dak
 * Dank -- potent marijuana
 * Dan K -- slang for Dank
 * Dark -- marijuana that is darker than normal
 * Devil's Lettuce
 * Diggity -- another name for dank, used heavily in South Georgia.
 * Dime -- a 10 dollar bag of marijuana (usually of lower quality)
 * Dino -- a predominantly southern term for a 10 dollar bag of marijuana (usually of lower quality)
 * Dirt -- cannabis of a lower quality; also, marijuana that is grown in dirt and is not hydroponically grown (also known as Dirtweed)
 * Dirty Dank
 * Ditchweed -- wild marijuana usually not to good.
 * Doobie or Doob -- a spliff
 * Dope -- sometimes a generic term for illegal drugs in general
 * Doshia (sometimes spelled Dolja)
 * Draw
 * Drizzle-- slang for an ounce of HYDRO
 * Dro -- short for hydro
 * Dub -- a $20 bag of marijuana
 * ''Dutchie"" -- A blunt made from a Dutch Master Cigar.
 * Dustwallow Marsh -- named after Dustwallow Marsh in World of WarCraft; high quality cannabis
 * Electric Puha -- from New Zealand, named after the Puha plant
 * Exotics -- a term for marijuana of high quality and not found around the area
 * Fat Sack -- a large quantity of marijuana found within a single bag
 * Fire -- very potent marijuana; also, marijuana that produces a strong burning sensation when deeply inhaled; also, marijuana with lots of red hairs
 * Flack Juice
 * Flame -- see "Fire" above.
 * Food -- A code name for cannabis in the exchange process. usually in phone conversations. eg. "Got any food?"
 * Fruit
 * Funk
 * Gage
 * Ganj -- a shortened variant of Ganja
 * Ganja -- a [Indian ] term; rather common in all Indian Languages
 * Gerp
 * Gear -- a general term for the drug; used with most forms the drug comes in
 * Giggly Sticks -- slang for joints
 * Good Goods -- from Charles Mann
 * Gran
 * Grandmas meds -- a bowl pack or delicious cannabis usually stolen from a family member
 * Grass
 * Green
 * Green cheesy wham
 * Green Funk
 * Green Goblin
 * Grim Creeper
 * Half A Sandwich -- 1/2 ounce of cannabis
 * Hameni
 * Hash -- short for hashish
 * Haze -- from Purple Haze, a potent and purple strain of marijuana
 * Headies
 * Heady Nugs
 * Hemp
 * Herb -- from the appearance of dried cannabis; extensively used in Jamaica (pronounced 'erb)
 * Herbals (sometimes colloquially spelled as Herbalz)
 * High
 * High-Grade -- expensive marijuana with a high THC content; often Kind-Bud
 * Hog-Leg -- a fat joint or blunt that resembles the stubby/thick leg of a hog
 * Home Grown -- fresh picked marijuana
 * Hoots -- can mean joints, or bud not yet rolled into joints
 * Hooda
 * Hydro -- short for hydroponics, a method of growing marijuana indoors using a nutrient solution in lieu of soil
 * Indian - A game in which 1 hits while the other holds in, cannot release air until the other finished their hit
 * Ish
 * J -- abbreviation for a marijuana joint
 * Jax -- A £5 bag of cannabis.
 * Jason Wheatley -- Chester term (popular with students from the north east)
 * Judy Fly -- a marijuana joint or cigar with a bit of cocaine powder added
 * Jughead -- another term for shotgun
 * Jungle -- a term describing a joint comprised of a mixture of cannabis and hashish
 * K.B. -- short for Kind-Bud (also spelled Kynd-Bud)
 * K.G.B. -- killer-green-bud
 * Killer -- kind bud
 * Kill
 * Kilroy
 * Kind-Bud -- a high-grade and usually expensive strain of marijuana; often grown indoors
 * Kind
 * Kraut
 * Kronic -- see "Chronic"
 * Kryptonite -- from the green substance that weakens Superman
 * Kynd -- a European variant of Kind
 * L -- a marijuana cigar (see Blunt)
 *  Lang -- Coined in North Kingstown, Rhode Island 2005
 * La-LaLa
 * Leaf
 * Left Handed Cigarette -- a marijuana joint
 * Lid -- a bag of weed
 * Longbottom Leaf -- referring to the Longbottom Leaf smoked throughout the Lord of the Rings
 * Lows -- low-grade marijuana that is usually cheap and not very potent (see Schwag)
 * M
 * Marihuana (variant of Marijuana)
 * Marijuana -- word originates in Mexican Spanish
 * Mary
 * Mary Jane -- literal translation of Marijuana
 * Methtical -- hip-hop slang from the rap-group The Wu-Tang Clan (see Method Man)
 * Method
 * Mid-Grade -- marijuana which is above-average but below high-grade in terms of potency
 * Middies -- a variant of Mid-Grade (also spelled Middys)
 * "Mids" -- another variant of "Mid-Grade"
 * Mint
 * M.J. -- short for Mary Jane
 * Mota
 * Mull -- Australian term
 * Muggles
 * Murphy
 * Neihe -- pronounced "near-he"; originated in Trinidad (Monos Island); neihe is usually shouted out in the duttiest fashion possible
 * Nine-bar -- Nine ounces of cannabis.
 * Nug -- term for exotic marijuana
 * Nuggets -- resinous Nuggets of cannabis buds
 * Nuggs -- shortened variant of Nuggets
 * Nugglets -- comic variant of Nuggs
 * Ooot -- Slang term for cannabis cigarette
 * Old Toby
 * Out-Do
 * Pappa C's funky space boots
 * Pasta
 * The Peeping Jesus
 * Phat Sack -- a large quantity of marijuana found within a single bag
 * Piff, or Mr. Piff
 * Piz -- a Croatian word for an approx. 7 grams of marijuana (worth $8)
 * Politics
 * Pollo -- joint in Puerto Rico
 * Poke Smot -- a semi-(spoonerism), as opposed to smoke pot; used frequently in Waterloo, Ontario
 * Porro -- Argentinian term
 * Pot -- from Mexican Spanish Potiguaya, cannabis leaves; very common slang
 * Puff
 * purpsee purple
 * purpleA very high quality mariguana that is chemically altered to have purple (hairs) among its stem
 * Purps -- short for "Purple Haze," an extremely potent strain
 * Q -- a quarter ounce of marijuana 7gm.
 * QP --a quarter pound of marijuana 112gm.
 * Quarter -- $25 worth of marijuana.
 * Rasta Plant -- from the Rastafari movement
 * Reef -- a shortened variant of Reefer
 * Reefer -- A cannabis cigarette with no tobacco.
 * Relish
 * R.G.B. -- Really Good Bud; a term for marijuana that is better than schwag but not as good as KB
 * Rope -- a joint, "smoke a rope"
 * Sasha -- Term refering to cannabis (popular in the south)
 * Schwag -- below-average marijuana which is usually very cheap; schwag is often smuggled in to the USA from Mexico; many teenagers begin their "marijuana experience" smoking schwag because it is extremely cheap and very accessible to the general public
 * Scraps -- Specific term used to describe the low grade parts of the plant (ie stalks)
 * Sensi -- a shortened variant of Sensemilla
 * Sensemilia -- Spanish sin semilla, "without seeds"; unfertilized female cannabis buds
 * Sess (sometimes spelled as Cess)
 * Shake -- loose cannabis flakes that have fallen off of the bud into the bottom of the bag; also known as scrapes
 * Shifty -- Common effect of extensive cannabis use, resulting in: quietness, staring into space, grinning.
 * Shit
 * Shizznit -- combination of Shizz and Shit
 * Shotgun -- Blowing smoke through a blunt into someone's mouth
 * Shrubs
 * Sizzla --potent marijuana
 * Skunk -- a particular cannabis strain; from its distinctive, skunky smell
 * Smoke
 * Smoke a sac -- to smoke some marijuana
 * Spliff -- a large joint
 * Stank -- highly aromatic marijuana
 * Stash
 * Stick -- $25 worth of marijuana, also called a Twenty-Fiver
 * Sticky -- marijuana that is particularly resinous
 * Sticky Icky -- marijuana that is particularly resinous
 * Sticky Black -- (or stciky brown) used to refer to particually sticky resin
 * Stress -- lower grade marijuana characterized by the presence of seeds and stems
 * Striijj -- pronounced "Streeeege," from slang used in Toronto, Canada
 * Stuff -- often used over the phone for those buyers/sellers paranoid or wary of being busted by the police
 * Swamp Grass -- term used in Florida for pot grown by country-boys/rednecks in the backwood areas
 * Sweet Leaf --Term used by the band Black Sabbath.
 * Tea -- early 20th-century slang
 * Texas Red
 * That Shit
 * Thump! Thump! Thump!
 * The J O Experience - A legendary gathering of individuals to join together and experience/enjoy the smoking of cannabis
 * The Wizard
 * Throw Bread -- to smoke marijuana; one can also toss-a-slice
 * Tical -- hip-hop slang from the rap-group The Wu-Tang Clan
 * Towels -- reference to South Park character Towelie
 * Trees -- from the resemblance of marijuana buds to leafy tree-greens
 * Twamp -- a $20 bag of marijuana
 * Tweed
 * Twenty-Fiver -- $25 worth of marijuana, also called a stick
 * Wacky Baccy
 * Wacky Tabacky -- from tobacco
 * Wacky Weed
 * Wag -- shortened from Schwag
 * Weed -- very common slang
 * White Rhino -- a potent strain
 * White Widow -- potent strain of marijuana
 * Wooze
 * Yaa
 * Yameen
 * Yoda
 * Zoot -- a joint of marijuana, popular in the UK

Cocaine

 * Bing or Bing Crosby -- Boston area
 * Blow
 * Bolivian Marching Powder
 * Booger Sugar
 * C
 * California Cornflakes
 * Chabbie
 * Charlie
 * Chinese Sky Candy
 * Ching -- resembling a cash-register, because of how expensive cocaine is
 * Co-ca-ee-na (phonetic)
 * Coke -- shortened form of cocaine
 * Columbian Dancing Dust
 * Columbian Foot Soldiers
 * Crack "crack cocaine, crack cocaine frys your brain " Lil Wyte "In The Streets " - smokable form of cocaine
 * Cuch
 * Devils Dandruff
 * Flake
 * Hamburger(s) -- from "Cheech & Chong's Nice Dreams"
 * Happy Trails
 * Hocus-Pocus
 * Hydro
 * Kitty
 * Lady, Lady C
 * Lines
 * Lucifer Left-Nostril
 * Nose Candy
 * Powder -- self descriptive
 * ''Showbiz Sherbert
 * Shnazzle
 * Skeeter
 * Sleigh Ride
 * Snow -- cocaine as a powder resembles very fine snow (see Ski Bunnies)
 * Snow Angels
 * Soft
 * speed
 * The White Lion
 * Tonys -- after Tony Montana from Scarface
 * Toot
 * 256 --- "BLO" on the telephone keypad
 * White
 * White Lady
 * Yao -- pronounced "yay-O"
 * Yale
 * Yak -- Southwestern colliquial.
 * Yay
 * Yeyo -- from Scarface: "Chichi, get the lleyo" (also featured in hip-hop lyrics)
 * white- ("road trip, yeah im trafficin' the WHITE, pleaz lord dont let me go to jail tonight"- young jeezy (soul survivor)

Dextromethorphan

 * Blue Face -- Refers to the blue cover of Robitussin Maximum Strength Cough Suppressant. This is the most desirable variety of Robitussin due to its lack of other active ingredients.  So, the "right kind" of cough syrup is easily recognized by its blue packaging.
 * Big Red
 * Dex
 * Dexed -- To be high on Dextromethorphan.
 * Dexie -- A recreational user of Dextromethorphan.
 * DXM
 * Robotripping -- Dextromethorphan; refers specifically to getting high on DXM by drinking bottles of Robitussin brand cough syrup.
 * Robo
 * Rojo
 * Rojillo
 * Sasquatch
 * Skittling -- Dextromethorphan; refers to using gel caps to get high because of their resemblance to red skittles candy.

Heroin

 * Black
 * Black Tar -- from a certain variety, which Kurt Cobain used for his last fix
 * Bobby Brown
 * Boy
 * ''Brown
 * Brown Sugar
 * Mr. Brownstone
 * Cheeba
 * China White
 * Diesel- Common slang used in New York
 * Dog Food
 * Dookey Rocks
 * Dope - Common slang used in Philadelphia
 * Dragon -- when smoked, the thick smoke of heroin is said to resemble the tail of a dragon (hence Chasing the Dragon)
 * 57 Chevy -- from the Eric Clapton song "Rock 'N' Roll Heart"
 * ''Gear
 * Golden Brown -- from the color of heroin
 * Goop
 * H -- shortened form of Heroin
 * Harry
 * Hero
 * Hop
 * Horse
 * Junk
 * Kaka Water
 * Lady H
 * Noddy Brown
 * P-dope
 * Pepper
 * Poppy
 * Rob Flaherty
 * Scag
 * Smack -- from the action of smacking the arm to produce a prominent vein in which to inject the drug
 * Snow
 * Tar

Ecstasy (MDMA)

 * Adam
 * Bacalao (Salt Cod) -- used in Spain. Also used to refer to electronica music.
 * Beans
 * Disco Buscuits
 * Dancing Shoes - phone slang
 * Doves
 * E
 * ''E-bombs
 * Ecstasy
 * Essence
 * Ex
 * hug drug
 * Jack and jills, or simply Jills -- English Cockney rhyming slang
 * Love potion
 * Madman
 * Mandy
 * Mitsu's -- named after the infamous Mitsubishi Ecstasy pills of the late 1990s to early 2000s
 * Molly
 * Pills
 * Rolls -- in Mid-Atlanic slang, a user is said to be "Rolling," or "Rolling Balls"
 * Sextasy -- a slang term for the combination of the drugs MDMA (ecstasy) and sildenafil citrate (aka Viagra&reg;)
 * Slits
 * Smartees
 * Sweets
 * ThizzBAy AREA
 * ThizzingRefers to being high on XTC very common Bay area term made by the desesed MAC-DRE
 * ThizzlesBay Area
 * Vitamin E
 * X
 * Yokes Dublin slang

Ketamine

 * Cat Tranquilizer, Horse Tranquilizer, etc -- from its use as a veterinary anaesthetic
 * K -- shortened form of Ketamine
 * ''Kenny
 * K-Hole -- disassociated hallucinogenic state at higher doses
 * Kitty
 * Regretamine
 * Special K -- humorous; from the breakfast cereal of the same name
 * Vitamin K

Khat (pronounced cot)

 * Chat
 * Qat
 * Quaadka

LSD

 * Acid
 * Acid tabs
 * Alice -- from Alice in Wonderland's psychedelic adventures.
 * Blotters -- from the blotter paper it comes on.
 * California Sunshine
 * Lavender
 * Lucy in the sky with diamonds -- slang originally from The Beatles song about a painting done by Lennon's son.
 * Microdots -- from tiny tablets.
 * Paper -- from the blotter paper it comes on.
 * Rips -- Abbreviation of "trips"
 * Sugar cubes
 * Tabs -- LSD is sometimes blotted onto sheets of paper, cut up into little squares called tabs
 * Timothy Leary Ticket
 * Trade names -- e.g. Strawberries, Orange Sunshine, Felix; tabs are often illustrated, and specific batches named after the illustration or color of paper used.
 * Tickets - often used to describe blotter paper
 * Trip -- note than an LSD experience is known as a trip; being on LSD is known as tripping
 * Uncle Sidney, Uncle Sid, Sid, 'Cid -- contraction of A-cid
 * White lightning
 * Window Pane - from the gelatin windows it comes on.
 * Yellow sunshine

Mescaline

 * Cactus
 * Peyote
 * pixie sticks-- for the dream like hallucinations one feels

Methadone

 * Doses
 * ''Juice
 * Phy -- from Physeptone, a brand name for methadone

Methamphetamine

 * Amp -- from the "amped-up" or "charged-up" feeling that a person feels when on crystal-meth
 * Batu
 * Billy -- A play on Billy Crystal, because of its nickname "Crystal"
 * Champagne
 * Crank -- non-crystalline methamphetamine powder prepared for insufflation or injection
 * Crystal -- from the crystalline form of pure methamphetamine
 * Crystal-Meth
 * Christina
 * Crack -- from "Crank"
 * Dope -- a term for drugs in general but also used for meth
 * Gak
 * Geek
 * Goose-Egg
 * Go or Go Fast
 * Go Pills -- military slang, especially pilots (see history of WWII: Japan, Germany, USA)
 * Ice -- from the appearance of crystalline methamphetamine, resembling ice
 * Jib -- Canadian Meth
 * Meth
 * Methedrine -- a brand name
 * P
 * Pure
 * Redneck cocaine
 * Ryan
 * Shabu -- Japanese street name
 * Shit
 * Speed -- applicable also to any stimulants of the amphetamine class
 * Tanner
 * Tina -- from 'Christina'
 * Tik -- South African street name
 * Tweak
 * Zip

Other

 * Eve -- MDEA
 * Gary Edelstein -- MDMA from rhyming slang for Gary Ablett, Tablet
 * GHB -- Gammahydroxybutyrate
 * GBH -- GHB from 'Greivous Bodily Harm,' highlighting its use as a date rape drug.
 * Pink Panther -- Diphenhydramine/Dramamine; refers to pink color of diphenhydramine preparations such as Benedryl.
 * Hippy crack -- Nitrous Oxide
 * Liquid Ecstacy -- Gammahydroxybutyrate
 * Sextasy -- a slang term for the combination of the drugs MDMA (ecstasy) and sildenafil citrate (aka Viagra&reg;)
 * Speedball -- Cocaine mixed with heroin; cause of most hard drug overdoses.
 * Whippets -- Nitrous Oxide
 * Nexus -- 2C-B.
 * Hippy flip -- Magic mushrooms and MDMA.
 * Candyflip -- LSD-25 and MDMA.

Other Opiates

 * Blues and Yellas -- from the color of the valium
 * ''Duncan Flockharts --Dihydrocodeine, from DF118
 * DFs -- from DF118, a brand name of the chemical Dihydrocodeine
 * Dikes -- from Diconal a brand name for Dipipanone and cyclizine
 * Dikies -- from Diconal a brand name for Dipipanone and cyclizine
 * Diffs -- brand name DHC Continus, chemical name Dihydrocodeine
 * Hillbilly Heroin -- Oxycontin
 * Nubian -- from Nalbuphine hydrochloride
 * Tems -- brand name Temgesic, chemical name Buprenorphine

Phencyclidine

 * Angel
 * Angel Dust
 * Dust
 * Hog
 * Ice
 * Krystal
 * Love Boat
 * Magic dust
 * Monkey dust
 * PCP
 * Rocketfuel
 * Sherm or Sherms Sherman Hemsley
 * Wack

Psychedelic mushrooms

 * Boomers
 * Caps
 * Fun Gus
 * Fun Guys
 * Fungus
 * Goombas
 * Gus
 * Lalkas
 * Magic Mushrooms
 * Mucks
 * Muggers
 * Mushies
 * Shrooms, Shroomies
 * Smurfhats
 * Toads
 * Umbrellas
 * Zoomers