meth
nounnounnounnounnouncommon in dialogue
- //mɛθ//
Methamphetamine, especially in the form of the crystalline hydrochloride.
noun
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informalMethamphetamine, especially in the form of the crystalline hydrochloride.
Etymology
Clipping of methamphetamine.
noun
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informalMethadone.
Dunno why you want to try and make last any longer than it already does. Meth has to be the single most wicked shit I ever involved myself with. But as far as what it actually does, your best bet would be to trot down to the local library and look it up.
Etymology
Clipping of methadone.
noun
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A tramp.
Etymology
From meths or methylated spirits, as stereotypically drunk by tramps.
noun
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A spiced mead, originally from Wales.
The Russians, Swedes, Danes, and those of Northern Inhabitants, exceed all the rest, having made the drinking of Brandy, Aqua Vitae, Hydromel, Beer, Mum, Meth, and other Liquors in great quantitites, so familiar to them, that they usually drink our countrymen to death.
Etymology
From metheglin, from Welsh meddyglyn, from meddyg (“medicinal”) (from Latin medicus) + llyn (“liquor”) (cognate with Irish lionn and Gaelic leann).
noun
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slangMarijuana.
Etymology
Clipping of method, which see.
Forms
- plural
- meths
meth · Methamphetamine, especially in the form of the crystalline hydrochloride.
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