chiva
American slang, primarily in Hispanic communities, for heroin.
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American slang, primarily in Hispanic communities, for heroin. Borrowed from Spanish 'chiva' (goat, or slang for heroin in Mexican Spanish), the term circulates in US drug slang particularly in areas with large Latino populations. It belongs to a broader set of Spanish-origin drug slang terms used in American English.
He'd been clean for two years when someone offered him chiva at the party.
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(US, slang) heroin.
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