devil smoke
Street slang for crack cocaine, combining the demonic imagery of 'devil' with 'smoke' to capture both the drug's reputation for destroying lives and its method of use — smoked through a pipe.
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Street slang for crack cocaine, combining the demonic imagery of 'devil' with 'smoke' to capture both the drug's reputation for destroying lives and its method of use — smoked through a pipe. The name reflects the morally charged language that drug culture often uses, either as a warning or as an ironically exciting label. Like many crack cocaine nicknames, it's rooted in the 1980s epidemic period but remains recognizable in contemporary urban slang.
The neighborhood had been hollowed out by devil smoke in the nineties, and some blocks were still trying to recover.
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(slang) Crack cocaine.
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