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skinpop

skinpop verb: to inject drugs subcutaneously.

Verb

skinpop (third-person singular simple present skinpops, present participle skinpopping, simple past and past participle skinpopped)

  1. (slang) To inject drugs subcutaneously.
    • The patient skinpopped for 1½ years and then started to mainline heroin.1968, Richard Brotman, Alfred M. Freedman, A Community Mental Health Approach to Drug Addiction, page 97
    • […] the ones who come over past midnight and skinpop, the best high for fucking […]2015, Charles McLeod, Settlers of Unassigned Lands, page 22
    1. (slang) To do so in a way that creates a depot under the skin.

Forms of skinpop

third-person singular presentskinpops
present participleskinpopping
past participleskinpopped
pastskinpopped
alternative formskin-pop

Origin of skinpop

From skin + pop.

Questions about skinpop

What does skinpop mean?
Skinpop means to inject drugs subcutaneously.
What part of speech is skinpop?
Skinpop is a verb.
What is the past tense of skinpop?
The past tense of skinpop is skinpopped.

Words near skinpop in the dictionary

  1. skinnymalinkses
  2. skinnyscraper
  3. skinnyscrapers
  4. skinoe
  5. skinoes
  6. skinpop
  7. skinpopped
  8. skinpopping
  9. skinpops
  10. skins
  11. skins a flint

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