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schmeck slang.|ʃmɛk|
Also smeck. Pl. ˈschmecken.
[a. Yiddish schmeck, sniff.]
A drug; spec. heroin.
1932Evening Sun (Baltimore) 9 Dec. 31/5 Smeck, dope. 1941M. U. Schappes Lett. from Tombs 104 ‘Shmeck’—dope, a drug. 1966Sunday Times (Colour Suppl.) 13 Feb. 35/4 Schmeck, heroin. 1967M. Calpan In Deadly Vein ix. 196 ‘He was always wild... Anything for kicks... In the end it was schmeck.’ ‘Heroin?’ ‘Yes. Hooked.’ 1970L. Sanders Anderson Tapes xxxi. 86 She's hustling right now—schmeck, tail, abortion—the whole lot. Ibid. xcii. 218, I have some drugs. Some schmeck. Do you want a shot? 1971Oz No. 36. 40/1 Shoot enough schmeck into them and they won't even think of burning and looting.
Hence ˈschmecker, a drug-addict, esp. one who takes heroin.
1953W. Burroughs Junkie (1972) viii. 77 He went on talking about some old acquaintances who got their start in junk and later turned respectable. ‘Now they say, ‘Don't have anything to do with Sol. He's a shmecker’.’ 1955Publ. Amer. Dial. Soc. xxiv. 193 If they are all schmeckers, or narcotic addicts, they have a prearranged time to fix or take a bang. 1966C. Himes Heat's On xix. 145 The skin⁓poppers and the schmeckers (those who used the needle and those who sniffed the powder). |