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Special K

Special K proper noun: a breakfast cereal made primarily from rice and wheat.

Proper noun

Special K

  1. A breakfast cereal made primarily from rice and wheat.
    • He seemed better this morning; he had eaten two donuts and a bowl of Special K for breakfast.1980, Stephen King, The Mist, Viking Press

Noun

Special K (uncountable)

  1. (slang) Ketamine, used as a hallucinogen.
    • Yeah, it's called the euphoric blockbuster and it's supposed to make Special K look weak.1995, Harmony Korine, Kids, spoken by Fidget
    • Ketamine, a powerful anesthetic that acts on an entirely different neurotransmitter system (and which has been ingested in rave clubs as Special K) was recently the subject of a glowing study by the National Institute of Mental Health.2008 October, Paul Scott, “Was the Prozac revolution all in our heads?”, in Men's Health, volume 23, number 8, →ISSN, page 149

Examples of Special K in a sentence

  • The soul leaves the sedated body and is free to travel, according to the not-exact testimony of numerous drugged-out Special K abusers.2013, Chuck Palahniuk, Doomed, page 58:
  • Recreational users call it "special K," and the euphoric, hallucinatory experience it induces the "K-hole."[2018 May 8, Moises Velasquez-Manoff, “Ketamine Stirs Up Hope—and Controversy—as a Depression Drug”, in Wired:

Origin of Special K

Initial of Kellogg Company. The drug was nicknamed humorously after the cereal because its name begins with the letter k, as also with the slang sense of vitamin K.

Questions about Special K

What does Special K mean?
Special K means a breakfast cereal made primarily from rice and wheat.
How do you use Special K in a sentence?
The soul leaves the sedated body and is free to travel, according to the not-exact testimony of numerous drugged-out Special K abusers.
What part of speech is Special K?
Special K can be a proper noun or a noun.

Words near Special K in the dictionary

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  9. special licence
  10. special licences
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