sherm

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English

Etymology

From Nat Sherman, a cigarette brand and former tobacco store in New York City, which used to be the most popular brand to dip in PCP, because unlike most other cigarettes, they did not fall apart when wet.

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Noun

sherm (countable and uncountable, plural sherms)

  1. (uncountable, slang) The drug phencyclidine (PCP).
  2. (countable, slang) A cigarette soaked in PCP.
    • 1995, “Sherm Stick”, performed by Jayo Felony:
      We gon smoke a dip, all of it; not a little bit; we gon smoke a sherm stick.
    • 1996, “Hit 'em Up”, performed by Tupac Shakur:
      It's like a sherm high niggas think they learned to fly, but they burn, motherfucker, you deserve to die.
  3. (slang, derogatory) A degenerate; a person not worthy of respect.
    • 2006, Noire , Thug-A-Licious: An Urban Erotic Tale, New York, N.Y.: One World, Ballantine Books, →ISBN, page 119:
      So there you got it. Pimp got a robbery charge hung around his neck, and Rome? That sherm fucked around and tried to buy some dope from an undercover cop. A whole lotta dope.

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