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schmecks

schmecks is the plural of schmeck.

Meaning of schmeck

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

Questions about schmecks

What is schmecks the plural of?
Schmecks is the plural of schmeck.

Words near schmecks in the dictionary

  1. schmeckels
  2. schmecker
  3. schmeckers
  4. schmeckle
  5. schmeckles
  6. schmecks
  7. schmeer
  8. schmeered
  9. schmeering
  10. schmeers
  11. schmegegge

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Adapted from Wiktionary: schmecks (page history and authors); schmeck (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.

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