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speedball

[ speed-bawl ]

noun

  1. a game similar to soccer with the chief difference that a player catching the ball on the fly can pass it with the hands.
  2. Slang. any combination of a stimulant and a depressant taken together, especially a mixture of heroin and cocaine or heroin and methamphetamine injected into the bloodstream.


verb (used without object)

  1. Slang. to take a speedball, especially by injection.

speedball

/ ˈspiːdˌbɔːl /

noun

  1. slang.
    a mixture of heroin with amphetamine or cocaine
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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Word History and Origins

Origin of speedball1

First recorded in 1940–45; speed + ball 1
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Example Sentences

Blink-182 were powering through one pop-punk burner after another, a virtually sold-out Climate Pledge Arena crowd hanging on every cymbal crash and speedball harmony.

Use the Speedball Lino, U nib for everything in between the outline.

Then carve the outline with the Speedball Lino, V nib.

The combination of an opiate with a stimulant — commonly called a “speedball” — has become increasingly popular, said Daniel Ciccarone, a professor at the University of California at San Francisco who studies drugs.

All the scene needed was Bruce Springsteen playing in the back, “I had a friend was a big baseball player back in high school. He could throw that speedball by you, make you look like a fool.”

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