Word.ws English Dictionary

chemmie

chemmie noun: a chemical, especially a recreational drug. Also the alternative form of chemmy.

Noun

chemmie (plural chemmies)

  1. (rare, slang) A chemical, especially a recreational drug.
    • Within the next week he gave up all the rest of his chemmies: the wakers and dozers, the vim-pills, the breeze capsules. Bottle after bottle vanished down the recycling chute.1996, Scott Russell Sanders, Terrarium, page 79
    • I'd picked up enough earlier to know that she was involved in some huge and maybe seriously dangerous deal involving several of the larger Central American countries her companies controlled and, whisper went, some nukes or chemmies, depending who you heard.2016, Michael Moorcock, King of the City

Also used as

chemmie is also the alternative form of chemmy.

Synonyms of chemmie

Forms of chemmie

pluralchemmies

Origin of chemmie

From chem(ical) + -ie, compare chem (“chemical”).

From chem(in de fer) + -ie.

Questions about chemmie

What does chemmie mean?
Chemmie means a chemical, especially a recreational drug.
What part of speech is chemmie?
Chemmie is a noun.
What is the plural of chemmie?
The plural of chemmie is chemmies.

Words near chemmie in the dictionary

  1. chemitype
  2. chemitypes
  3. chemitypic
  4. chemitypy
  5. Chemke syndrome
  6. chemmie
  7. chemmies
  8. chemmy
  9. Chemnitz
  10. chemo
  11. chemo brain

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: chemmie (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “chemmie.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/chemmie. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.