speedball
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See also: speed ball and speed-ball
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speedball (countable and uncountable, plural speedballs)
- (slang, countable) A mixture of heroin and cocaine or sometimes other drugs.
- Synonyms: powerball, over and under
- 2016, Zadie Smith, Swing Time, New York, N.Y.: Penguin Press, →ISBN, page 233:
- This being Camden, every passing pisshead and stoner had a theory: bad E, dehydration, alcohol poisoning, probably done a speedball.
- (slang, countable) Coffee with espresso.
- (baseball, countable) A fastball.
- (uncountable, sports) A competitive variant of paintball with an equal playing field, contrasted with woodsball.
- (uncountable, sports) An Egyptian racquet sport.
- (military, aviation) An improvised adhoc airdrop resupply pack, composed of ammo, food and water, and other supplies, stuffed into a body bag or duffle bag.
- Synonym: speed bag
Verb
speedball (third-person singular simple present speedballs, present participle speedballing, simple past and past participle speedballed)
- (intransitive) To occur fast, as if trying to finish as soon as possible.
- 2009, Alex Lemon, Happy: A Memoir:
- His words start to speedball. “Youneedtobestillwhenyou're inthere.”
- (intransitive, slang) To take heroin and cocaine at the same time.