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shmeck

shmeck is the alternative form 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 shmeck

What is shmeck the alternative form of?
Shmeck is the alternative form of schmeck.

Words near shmeck in the dictionary

  1. shmear
  2. shmeared
  3. shmearing
  4. shmears
  5. shmeat
  6. shmeck
  7. shmecker
  8. shmeckers
  9. shmeer
  10. shmeered
  11. shmeering

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