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homebake

homebake verb: to bake (food) at home.

Verb

homebake (third-person singular simple present homebakes, present participle homebaking, simple past and past participle homebaked)

  1. (rare, transitive) To bake (food) at home.
    • Comstock cherry pie-filling has more fruit. That’s why there’s no guessing where the filling leaves off and the cherries begin. So next time you want to homebake the cherriest cherry pie this side of a cherry tree, make it easy.1968 February, “More cherries per pie [advertisement]”, in Ladies' Home Journal, volume 85, number 2, Philadelphia, Pa.: Curtis Publishing Company, page 47
  2. (Australia, New Zealand, slang, transitive) To manufacture (recreational drugs) using the homebake method.

Noun

homebake (uncountable)

  1. (Australia, New Zealand, slang) Any of various potent recreational drugs (e.g., heroin or morphine) prepared illicitly from commercially available opiates (especially codeine).
    • We'll be reduced to crawling around dozens of firework shops trying to accumulate enough sparklers to make a bomb, just like the grind of getting together enough legal analegesics^([sic]) for homebake.2002 November 6, Steve B, “Re: Guy Fawkes Nite”, in nz.general (Usenet)
    • Not true. Pharmacists have lots of trouble with continuous approaches from homebake makers. There is no end to their optimism, sometimes they succeed.2003 August 13, Kerry, “Re: cold and flu tablets”, in nz.general (Usenet)

Forms of homebake

third-person singular presenthomebakes
present participlehomebaking
past participlehomebaked
pasthomebaked
alternative formhome-bake

Origin of homebake

From home + bake.

Questions about homebake

What does homebake mean?
Homebake means to bake (food) at home.
What part of speech is homebake?
Homebake can be a verb or a noun.
What is the past tense of homebake?
The past tense of homebake is homebaked.

Words near homebake in the dictionary

  1. home-sicknesses
  2. home-sit
  3. home-sits
  4. home-sitting
  5. home-speaking
  6. homebake
  7. homebaked
  8. homebaker
  9. homebakers
  10. homebakes
  11. homebaking

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