Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A game resembling soccer but differing mainly in that a ball caught on the fly may be passed with the hands and points may be scored by a forward pass over the goal line.
- noun Slang An intravenous dose of cocaine mixed with heroin or an amphetamine.
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- noun slang, countable A mix of
heroin andcocaine . - noun slang, countable
Coffee withespresso . - noun baseball, countable A
fastball . - noun uncountable A
competitive variant ofpaintball with an equal playing field, contrasted withwoodsball .
Etymologies
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Examples
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Perez Hilton funked up on a speedball is more insightful than the smartest person at Politico.
Matthew Yglesias » Note, Mike Allen Fans Flag Non-Story 2009
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And I kinda figured a speedball is what the troll is on.
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Keeping up with Keef became a deadly game in the early 1970s, when heroin - usually mixed with cocaine and injected as a "speedball" - became Richards and his partner, Anita
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How true it is, the only evidence of a speedball is a tiny pinhole of skin disturbed.
The Annotated "Mr. Charlie" Robert Hunter 1997
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She starts to prepare something called a speedball, heroin mixed with cocaine.
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She starts to prepare something called a speedball, heroin mixed with cocaine.
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This combination, known as a speedball, also killed Belushi and Farley.
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In drugs parlance a speedball is a mixture of heroin and cocaine, made famous as the drug which killed 'Blues Brothers' star John Belushi.
unknown title 2009
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This combination, known as a speedball, also killed Belushi and Farley.
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Keeping up with Keef became a deadly game in the early 1970s, when heroin – usually mixed with cocaine and injected as a "speedball" – became Richards and his partner, Anita Pallenberg's, drug of choice.
Life by Keith Richards Sean O 2010
ry commented on the word speedball
see also red eye
January 24, 2013