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speedball

speedball noun: a mixture of heroin and cocaine or sometimes other drugs.

Noun

speedball (countable and uncountable, plural speedballs)

  1. (countable, slang) A mixture of heroin and cocaine or sometimes other drugs.
    • This being Camden, every passing pisshead and stoner had a theory: bad E, dehydration, alcohol poisoning, probably done a speedball.2016, Zadie Smith, Swing Time, New York, N.Y.: Penguin Press, →ISBN, page 233
  2. (countable, slang) Coffee with espresso.
  3. (countable) A fastball.
  4. (uncountable) A competitive variant of paintball with an equal playing field, contrasted with woodsball.
  5. (uncountable) An Egyptian racquet sport.
  6. An improvised adhoc airdrop resupply pack, composed of ammo, food and water, and other supplies, stuffed into a body bag or duffle bag.
    Synonyms:
    speed bag
  7. Synonym of speed bag (“type of punching bag”).
    Synonyms:
    speed bag

Verb

speedball (third-person singular simple present speedballs, present participle speedballing, simple past and past participle speedballed)

  1. (intransitive) To occur fast, as if trying to finish as soon as possible.
    • His words start to speedball. “Youneedtobestillwhenyou're inthere.”2009, Alex Lemon, Happy: A Memoir
  2. (intransitive, slang) To take heroin and cocaine at the same time.

Synonyms of speedball

Forms of speedball

Noun
pluralspeedballs
alternative formspeed ball
alternative formspeed-ball
Verb
third-person singular presentspeedballs
present participlespeedballing
past participlespeedballed
pastspeedballed

Origin of speedball

From speed + ball.

Words formed from speedball

Questions about speedball

What does speedball mean?
Speedball means a mixture of heroin and cocaine or sometimes other drugs.
What part of speech is speedball?
Speedball can be a noun or a verb.
What is the plural of speedball?
The plural of speedball is speedballs.

Words near speedball in the dictionary

  1. speed-ups
  2. speedable
  3. speedaway
  4. speedbag
  5. speedbags
  6. speedball
  7. speedballed
  8. speedballer
  9. speedballers
  10. speedballing
  11. speedballs

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