needle parkn.

Brit.

/ˈniːdl pɑːk/, U.S.

/ˈnid(ə)l ˈpɑrk/

Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: needle n., park n.

Etymology: < needle n. + park n., popularized by the novel The Panic in Needle Park (1966) by James Mills, in which Needle Park referred to a traffic island in New York at the junction of Broadway and 74th Street.

slang (originally U.S.)

A public area in a city, usually with trees, bushes, benches, etc., where drug addicts gather.

ΘΚΠ

the world > physical sensation > use of drugs and poison > [noun] > place for injecting drugs

shooting-gallery1951

needle park1965

1965 J. Mills in Life 26 Feb. 82/2 To subway riders who use the stop there, the intersection is Sherman Square. To the drug addicts it is ‘Needle Park’.

1966 J. Mills (title) The panic in Needle Park.

1981 N.Y. Times (Nexis) 11 Oct. 29/1 Florence, he said, was not as safe as it was just a few years ago because drug traffic had made the Ponte Vecchio a ‘needle park’ at night.

1991 Time 19 Aug. 40/1 Needle Park nestles only a few minutes walk from the banking district where the city's fabled gnomes control the levers of the national economy.

2001 Herald Sun (Melbourne) (Nexis) 24 Aug. 18 The Swiss learned..the hard way when they closed Zurich's ‘needle park’ in 1993 because it was attracting addicts from outside Zurich, as well as criminals selling heroin.

This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, September 2003; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	needle park
释义	needle parkn. Brit. /ˈniːdl pɑːk/, U.S. /ˈnid(ə)l ˈpɑrk/ Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: needle n., park n. Etymology: < needle n. + park n., popularized by the novel The Panic in Needle Park (1966) by James Mills, in which Needle Park referred to a traffic island in New York at the junction of Broadway and 74th Street. slang (originally U.S.) A public area in a city, usually with trees, bushes, benches, etc., where drug addicts gather. ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > use of drugs and poison > [noun] > place for injecting drugs shooting-gallery1951 needle park1965 1965 J. Mills in Life 26 Feb. 82/2 To subway riders who use the stop there, the intersection is Sherman Square. To the drug addicts it is ‘Needle Park’. 1966 J. Mills (title) The panic in Needle Park. 1981 N.Y. Times (Nexis) 11 Oct. 29/1 Florence, he said, was not as safe as it was just a few years ago because drug traffic had made the Ponte Vecchio a ‘needle park’ at night. 1991 Time 19 Aug. 40/1 Needle Park nestles only a few minutes walk from the banking district where the city's fabled gnomes control the levers of the national economy. 2001 Herald Sun (Melbourne) (Nexis) 24 Aug. 18 The Swiss learned..the hard way when they closed Zurich's ‘needle park’ in 1993 because it was attracting addicts from outside Zurich, as well as criminals selling heroin. This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, September 2003; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1965
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