Each specific social group has its own slang. So, for example, a prisoner knows who a fraer is, a prostitute knows who a mother is. Those people who use drugs also have their own special slang. It arose both as a disguise from law enforcement agencies and so that “friends” could be recognized everywhere.
The history of the addiction slang
He appeared in the eighties in the Soviet Union in connection with the spread of prohibited substances that affect consciousness. The main carrier, of course, was young people - among people older than drug addicts it was rare to meet.
Features
Addictive slang consisted for the most part of concepts denoting methods of acquiring substances and the drugs themselves. Some of the words came from English. For example, amphetamines are aids, and the name came from the English speed, which means "speed" (this drug enhances a person’s physical activity). Dragstor is a "pharmacy" where you can buy substances, a word came from two English: drug - drug and store - store. The jargon of drug addicts is mostly caste-limited, and only a few words go beyond the boundaries of the social group that uses it. The main trick is transferring the meaning of the word based on the similarity of properties: for example, in the drug jargon, LSD (semisynthetic substance) is a brand. Indeed, over the past few decades, it has been distributed on bright paper-impregnated media visually similar to postage stamps.
Also a rather interesting technique of word formation in drug slang is the so-called secondary nomination. Most often, this method is used in the name of various substances: Mar Ivanna - marijuana, Dima - diphenhydramine, Martha - morphine, Katya - codeine.
Jargon Functions: Nominative
Slang is used to name an action, a process (formerly as a code and a way to determine the members of its social group, now it is more due to the linguistic tradition) or a phenomenon that does not have a name in the literary language. For example, what does it mean to “explode” in drug jargon? This word describes the process of setting a cigarette on fire with a drug (for example, marijuana). In the literary language, for example, there is no indication of the state of drug intoxication in the long phase, when the user experiences detachment and does not respond to what is happening around. Slang calls this condition a pig or a pig.
Utilitarian function
Slang words formed through truncation of the foundations serve to shorten some long and too difficult to understand concepts. For example, drugs with the addition of chemicals are briefly called Khimki, methamphetamine - a hairdryer.
Worldview and pseudoesthetic function
They are quite closely interconnected. The greatest value for a person dependent on substances is, in fact, the drugs themselves and the effect that they have. Hence such concepts as high - drug intoxication, color music - a state of ecstasy. Side words, describing the state of drug intoxication as something positive, also perform a peculiar agitating function.
Authentication function
Its essence lies in the fact that with the help of specific words, drug addicts identify each other in society. Usually these are phrases not typical of the linguistic tradition, for example, “buy dust” - buy a powder drug.
Conspiracy function
For this purpose, jargon is usually used by criminals and drug addicts. Since the distribution and use of drugs is prohibited by law, drug addicts have developed special words that mask illegal activities. To people who are not carriers of drug slang, this vocabulary seems either completely incomprehensible, or is perceived in its direct everyday sense. For example, the phrase “buy flour” to a person who is not a carrier of slang will seem completely harmless, but for a drug addict it will mean acquiring cocaine.
Slang in culture and media
Users of the social network Facebook in the comments on one post about the song “The Watchmen” of the popular Russian group “Boombox” came to the conclusion that this composition also has a hidden, not at all romantic meaning. According to them, the song is about drug addicts. Indeed, in the test of the song there are a lot of words related to addict slang. The watchmen are people who give each other injections in turn, buns - cigarettes with hemp or marijuana, chivava, which occurs in the characters of the song - a narcotic substance produced in a makeshift way. According to some commentators, black dishes were smoked from the preparation of heroin (a well-known way is to heat a tablespoon with a lighter), and the phrase “lost the thread” was deciphered by many as “lost the vein”.
There is a lot of drug slang in the movie by David Gordon Green "Pineapple Express: Sitting, Smoking." The film itself is dedicated to drugs and the effect that their use has on people. By the way, slang is even in the name itself: "Pineapple Express" is a variety of marijuana.
Slang designations of types of drugs
Of course, there are a lot of jargon vocabulary, and below its basis:
- On addict slang, flour, coke, coconut, dust are cocaine. A mixture of cocaine with soda is called crack.
- Heroin - its slang name depends on whether the drug is purified or not. In the first case, it is called white, and in the second, in contrast, black.
- Hashish is mainly called proper names: Galya, Garik, "Gennady", Harrison. Solid is also called stone.
- Marijuana is uncle, shmal, Pal Palych, Mary Ivanna, Baha, Beladonna, ganjubas on the drug slang. If the grass is of poor quality, it is called straw, bespontovka, drake. Fried in oil - frying or roasting.
- The name of hemp can sometimes depend on the place where it grows. For example, from Afghanistan - Afghan. Any grass is often also called dope.
- Smoking mixes and mixes are spice, spiceha, hindu, jarash.
- Drugs in tablets are called by analogy with the form: wheels, rims, bagels.
- A crystal or gunpowder is a substance such as methamphetamine (it really has a crystalline structure). The same drug on addict slang is a screw or Victor Palych. Pervitin and the processes associated with it also denote these names: extinguish the screw - make the drug, screw the screw - use it intravenously, and the screw screw - just the person who uses this type of drug.
- By analogy with the consistency or in tune with the name they call liquid ecstasy - sodium oxybutyrate. This is water or Oksana on drug slang.
Accessories and cooking process
- All items necessary for the manufacture of drugs in general are called equipment. Each individual fixture also has its own name.
- A watch is a balance needed to accurately weigh a dose.
- The needle of the syringe is called a string, and the syringe itself is called a machine, tool, sometimes a red cap (this name is obtained from the drops of blood remaining on the end of the needle after injection).
- If after the preparation of the drug something unnecessary remains, then such waste is called nifel.
- Various components such as iodine, phosphorus, vinegar anhydride are red, black and sour, respectively.
- Unscrupulous drug dealers bodysyat their goods - that is, they dilute them with butor, increasing the volume of the substance. Such a drug is called, respectively, bodyagi.
- The process of making the solution for subsequent injection is called cooking.
- If we are talking about smoking mixtures or grass, then fill the pipe or a cigarette - hammer or hammer.
Drug use
There are both slang names for the process of drug use in general, and signs for the use of each type (smoking, injections, tablets, powder).
General concepts:
- Take the drug again, without feeling the proper effect of the first dose is to catch up.
- To use drugs in any form - to use (the same term is still widely used in computer slang in the meaning of "use this or that program")
Smoking related concepts:
- What does it mean to “blow up” in drug jargon? This is the first puff of a marijuana cigarette.
- When they want to talk about the process of smoking a drug, they say “blow”, “puff”, “hack”, “kill”, “get enough” or “get drunk”.
- You can inhale smoke in a peculiar way - a wig. It consists in the fact that one smoker takes a cigarette into his mouth with the lit end and quickly exhales air through it (blows out the engine). Thus, a dense pillar of smoke is obtained, which the second participant in the process inhales. If there is too much smoke and the person who inhaled it begins to cough, the exhaled smoke hammered a nail.
- To finish the cigarette completely, without leaving part of the grass in the goby, it can be curtailed in a special way. This method is called the heel.
- With an overdose of grass, a condition occurs that is called nakolotilovym or complete destruction.
Injection related concepts:
- One of the most well-known verbs denoting injecting a drug with a syringe is to swear. The same process is indicated by such verbs as being set, widened, puffed, and smeared.
- To use pervitin or amphetamine - to screw.
- Blow out - prevent the drug from accidentally getting under the skin during an injection.
Pill drug related concepts:
- Most often, when talking about the use of pills, they use slang words such as throwing or throwing wheels.
Slang designations of devices for use
- A marijuana smoking device is called a gun (consists of a plastic bottle and a pipette) or a parachute (it is made of a bottle and a plastic bag.
- A jamb or a stick is a marijuana cigarette.
- A syringe for injection is called an aggregate, apparatus, instrument, machine.
- The spoon on which heroin is heated is an oar.
- Garage - cap from the needle.
- The dot is the smallest division of the syringe scale.
- Furik - a test tube or any other small container for making a dose.
Distribution of substances
Here, too, there are distinctive words and phrases:
- The concept of "huckster" has passed from criminal jargon to drug addict. Here it refers to a person selling drugs.
- A pharmacist is a drug manufacturer or the same huckster, but with a medical background.
- The runner helped, the tune-up man - this is the name of the intermediaries.
- Air on drug slang means money to buy illegal substances.
- A point or a bank is a place where drugs are sold.
As the slang called the addicts themselves
Here a lot depends on what kind of drug is used:
- A heroin addict is a gondolos.
- The amphetamine-using apper.
- Smoking opium is a frowning, blackberry.
- The words denoting drug addicts in general are a jerk, a apricot, a user.
Of course, these are not all the words that lead to drug slang, but only the main and most frequently used. Slang is in constant dynamics: some words appear and some out of use.