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shmek

shmek 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

Forms of shmek

pluralshmeks

Questions about shmek

What is shmek the alternative form of?
Shmek is the alternative form of schmeck.

Words near shmek in the dictionary

  1. shmegeges
  2. shmegegge
  3. shmegegges
  4. shmegeggies
  5. shmegeggy
  6. shmek
  7. shmekl
  8. shmeks
  9. shmendrick
  10. shmendricks
  11. shmendrik

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Adapted from Wiktionary: shmek (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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