To celebrate the update of the Jason and Mylie T’s Movie list, I have created the Top 5-glossary list of Crack-House lingo.
I will pick the Top 5 from each category from the glossary
of Crack-House lingo, taken from the book, ‘Women and Crack-Cocaine’ (Macmillan Criminal Justice)
A
Apparently, there is no Crack-House lingo that begins with the letter ‘A’
B
5. Base, butter, cents, or head - A soliciting slogan used in the crack house to negotiate the sex-for-crack exchange. Translation: ‘for some crack, cocaine, or money, I will give oral sex.”
4. Base heads - People who exchange sex for crack in crack houses.
3. Booting - A process involving the use of a syringe to draw blood from the user’s arm, mixing the drawn blood with the drug already taken into the syringe, and then injecting it back into the vein.
2. Beam - A single ‘hit’ of crack, as in “Beam me up Scotty,” taken from TV’s Star Trek.
1. Blowing bubbles - Blowing crack smoke into the vagina.
C
5. Creeping - Stealing pocketbooks from cars in gas stations while the customer is inside paying for gas.
4. Cookie - A large quantity of crack,, approximately 90 rocks
3. Change purse - A vagina.
2. Chickenhead - A woman in a crack house who will do anything, usually sexual in nature, for a ‘hit’or piece of crack.
1. Crack for Crack - Exchanging sex for crack. “Let me give you some brains, or some crack for crack” (brains means oral sex)
D.
5. Drug Hounds - Regulars in a crack house.
4. Doctor - A person who injects drugs into someone else’s arm for a small fee. “I can never hit the vein, so I get a doctor to hit it for me.”
3. Doorman - The person at the door of a crack house who lets people in, checks for weapons, and watches for police.
2. Doo-doo - The residue left in a pipe after the crack has been smoked.
1. Devil’s Dick - A crack pipe. “It seems like all I do is suck men’s dick so I can suck the devil’s dick.”
E.
5. Eightball - A large quantity of crack, generally an eighth of an ounce. And sold in block form. ( This only ‘E’ listed in the book.)
F.
5. Flavor - Crack
4. Fire - A lighter, match, or torch used to vaporize crack.
3. Freebase - Smoking any form of cocaine base.
2. Fuck the dog - To waste time. “When he’s all done [climaxing] I don’t fuck the dog, I get rid of it quick. Spit it out.”
1. Freak Room - A separate room in a crack house where sexual activity occurs. ” I would lock people up in the freak room so they were alone. I would give them a key for the inside to let themselves out, but I would lock them up so no one could get into where they were at. I’d give them thirty minutes for $10 in the freak room, it was nice.”
G.
5. Geek Cigarette - A marijuana or tobacco cigarette laced with crack.
4. Girl - Cocaine
3. Girls - Prostitutes
2. guts, gut - A vagina
1. Gorilla pimp - Crack or Cocaine.
H.
5. Hole - 1) a bad neighborhood; 2) a vagina; 3) a prostitute
4. Hard white - crack
3. Hit House - crack house
2. Head Hunter - A woman who trades sex for crack in a crack house.
1. Half House - Oral and vaginal sex sold as a package deal. “How ‘bout half house for that rock there?”
I.
There are no “I” in crack-house lingo.
J.
5.
Jizz - Semen
4.
Joint - A crack or marijuana cigarette.
3. Jingle - A crack house (puts a new meaning to the x-mas song.)
2. John - The male customer of prostitute, or a person who purchases sex in a crack house.
1. Juggling - Selling crack, or any drug, for double what its worth.
K.
There are only two ‘K’ words in crack-house lingo.
2. Kingrat - A crack-house owner
1. Kibble and bits - Small pieces of crack.
L.
There are only two ‘L’ words in crack-house lingo.
2. Lace joint - A marijuana cigarette laced with crack.
1. Look-out man - A man, woman, or child working in or for a crack house who watches for the police.
M.
5. Mission - A crack smoking binge, lasting several days during which users do not eat or sleep.
4. Mainlining - Injecting drugs into the vein.
3. Mr. Windows - A crack user who has become so paranoid from smoking cocaine that he or she thinks the police are everywhere.
2. Mastercharge - A crack pipe. “Don’t leave home without your mastercharge.”
1.
N.
There are only four “N” words in crack-house lingo.
4. Nickel - A $5 piece of crack
3. Nine! - A warning that police are in the area.
2. Natures - Male or Female genitals
1. Nut - An orgasm, usually from oral sex. “Stoney was real happy, because he was just a green kid and was happy to have me get off his nut”
O.
There are only four “O” words in crack-house lingo.
4. Outlaw - A prostitute who works without a pimp
3. Ouzie - A crack smoking device, usually made from a small liquor bottle, pill bottle, soda can, or baby food jar
2. On the stem - Smoking Crack
1. Off the stroll - Having retired from prostitution
P.
5. Pussy Power - Using sexual leverage to obtain crack. “If I want to use my pussy I can always get as much as I want. The pussy works. It’s called pussy power.”
4. Pin Baby - A woman who provides sex for small amounts of crack.
3. Pee - Pure cocaine
2. Puff - Bogus or imitation crack.
1. Peter - A penis, but sometimes used to reference a vagina. (side note: I would hate, if I hung out in a crack house, for some crack head to get this term confused.)
Q.
No “Q” words in crack-house lingo
R.
5. Resort - A crack house in which crack is prepared, bought, sold and smoked, and in which sex is traded for crack.
4. Rubber Man - A person who either sells condoms to prostitutes or distributes them free as part of an AIDS prevention project.
3. Running
Buddy -
2. Rock star - A woman who trades sex for crack in a crack house
1. Raspberry - A male who exchanges sex for crack in a crack house.
S.
5. Skeezer - A woman who trade sex for crack in a crack house
4. Stroll - The major streets where prostitutes solicit customers
3. Strawberry - A young girl who exchanges sex for crack in a crack house.
2. Splitting - Rolling marijuana and crack into a single joint
1. Slobbing on Bob - Providing oral sex
T.
5. Trick - The male customer of a prostitute, or a person who purchases sex in a crack house.
4. Trick baby - A prostitute’s baby fathered by a trick.
3. Tweaking - While high on crack, imagining that everyt speck of dirt on the floor is a piece of crack, and hence, picking up and examining these specks. ‘They was all tweaking, down on their hands and knees on the floors, crawling around, picking up every little thing they saw.’
2. Turn Out - Someone who recently became a prostitute.
1. Toss-up - A woman who exchanges sex for crack in a crack house.
U
Only one “U” in crack-house lingo
1. Uppers - Stimulant drugs, such as amphetamines.
V.
Only one “V’ in crack-house ling.
1. V-up - A term used by crack-house owners to tell customers that they must either buy more crack or leave the house.
5. Wax - Bogus or imitation crack.
4. White Cloud - Crack
3. Watch back - A man, woman, or child working in or for a crack house who watches for police.
2. White - Crack
1. Works - Drug paraphernalia, usually drug injectors.
No “X, Y, or Z” words in crack-house lingo
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