jenkem
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English
Etymology
From Genkem (itself from General Chemical), a brand of glue similarly sniffed as a drug in South Africa.
Noun
jenkem (uncountable)
- A purported hallucinogenic inhalant made from fermented sewage.
- 2005 September, Alexandra Fuller, “We Just Want Enough”, in National Geographic, →ISSN:
- The hotel garden shrieked with bird life, and there were crocodiles in the courtyard pond; the fountains on either end of Cairo Road blustered with fresh water, and the street children were mad-eyed (those who can afford it sniff glue or gasoline, and those who can't sniff jenkem, fermented human sewage kept in a plastic bag for a week or so until it gives off intoxicating fumes).
- 2012 March 25, Less Money, Mo' Problems (American Dad!), season 8, episode 15:
- Billy: You want some Jenkem? It'll make you all better. Sure, it's a natural remedy! Huff on this!
Stan: What's in it?
Billy: My body waste, silly.
- For more quotations using this term, see Citations:jenkem.
