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schmeck

schmeck noun: a smell or a taste; a nip of a drink etc.

Noun (1)

schmeck (plural schmecks)

  1. (Jewish culture) A smell or a taste; a nip of a drink etc.

Noun (2)

schmeck (uncountable)

  1. (slang) Heroin.
    • The transistor radio swiped from an East 39th Street brownstone could be traded on a Harlem street corner for a "nickel's worth of schmeck" (a $5 bag of heroin).1974, Duane Denfeld, Street-wise Criminology, page 99
    • […] how he could help to flood the city with a deluge of drugs to take the place of the supply that had been confiscated by the police. Plenty for himself, too, he would have. Plenty of schmeck to keep himself charged for a long time.2010, Lawrance Maynard, The Pig Is Fat, page 249

Forms of schmeck

pluralschmecks

Questions about schmeck

What does schmeck mean?
Schmeck means a smell or a taste; a nip of a drink etc.
What part of speech is schmeck?
Schmeck is a noun.
What is the plural of schmeck?
The plural of schmeck is schmecks.

Words near schmeck in the dictionary

  1. schmear
  2. schmeared
  3. schmearing
  4. schmears
  5. schmeat
  6. schmeck
  7. schmeckel
  8. schmeckels
  9. schmecker
  10. schmeckers
  11. schmeckle

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