Synonyms for heroin
ˈhɛr oʊ ɪnher·o·in

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1. heroinnoun

   Synonyms:
   diacetylmorphine, diamorphine

2. heroinnoun

   Synonyms:
   junk, Big H, skag, smack, horse, boy, dope

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1. heroin, diacetylmorphinenoun

   a narcotic that is considered a hard drug; a highly addictive morphine derivative; intravenous injection provides the fastest and most intense rush

   Synonyms:
   diacetylmorphine

Matched Categories

1. • Hard Drug
   • Opiate

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1. List of paraphrases for "heroin":

   heroine, hero, smack

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1. heroin

   Synonyms:
   Diacetyl morphine Street terms Alquitran, alquitranat, antifreeze, aries, beast, Belushi, big H, black tar, blanca, blanco, bombido, bonita, boy, bozo, brea, broja, brown-noun, brown sugar, caballo, caca, calbo, carga, chapopote, chatarra, chicle, China White-white heroin or fentanyl, chiva, cotics, crank, crap, cura, dirt, DOA, dope, Dr. Feelgood, dust, dynamite, dyno, el diablo, estuffa, ferry dust, furra, gallup, gato, george, girl, glass, gold, golpe, goma, good, good horse, H, H&C, HRN, hache, hard, harry, hazel, heaven, henry, hera, heroina, hombre, horsebite, jeeJee, joharito, joy, junco, junk, karachi, la buena, Mayo, Mexican-noun, adjective, mudmurotugora, nanoo, perica, perico, piedra, polvo, poppy, powder, quill, ready rock, red-noun, shit, shoot, shoot-up, skag, skid, smack, spoon, stuff, TNT tar, tecata, tigre, tigre de blanco, tigre de Norte, tongs, vidrio, white-noun, wings, witch, zoquete Related Terms Agua de chango-liquid heroin administered nasally, Bindle-small packet of drug powder; heroin, chasing the dragon or chasing the tiger--to smoke heroin, coffee-brown heroin, nose drops-liquified heroin, P-dope-20-30% pure heroin, punk rocker-with cocaine, with crack, with Ecstasy-MDMA, or with LSD and marijuana, shabanging-heroin dissolved in liquid and taken through the nose using a nasal spray bottle, using monkey water-Shabanging heroin/cocaine, diacetylmorphine/cocaine, highballing, murder, smoking gun, snowball, speedball, whizbang

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1. Charles Cohen:

   I give them that, they debit it, and, in theory, I’m going to get my heroin in the mail.

2. Charlie Watts:

   I've said it myself, but people don't believe it. I nearly killed myself. At the end of two years on speed and heroin, I was very ill, my daughter used to tell me I looked like Dracula. I just stopped cold – for me and for my wife. It was never me, really.

3. John Barber:

   I am wary of supervised injection sites, i will not condone the illegal use of heroin, supervised or not.

4. Mathew Kiang:

   One thing I do want to highlight is that, despite the large differences in deaths across states, there's no evidence to suggest that there's differences in use, what we think is happening is that the heroin just continues to get more and more potent in the eastern United States, whereas heroin [ in ] the western United States has traditionally been this brown tar heroin. It's much harder to lace with fentanyl or other synthetic opioids.

5. Scott Reinhardt:

   Large amounts of high-quality, low-cost heroin and fentanyl are contributing to a record number of overdose deaths and life-threatening addictions nationwide, to address this, in the last few months, the Little Rock field office and the FBI, in collaboration with its partners, have arrested 45 individuals who were directly involved in the sale and distribution of opioids, including heroin and fentanyl.