Freebase vs Smoke - What's the difference?
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(chemistry) The purified, dry form of an amine, especially an alkaloid natural product, that is normally used in solution.
* 1987 , Richard Seymour, David Elvin Smith, The Physician's Guide to Psychoactive Drugs ,
* 2002 , Edith Fairman Cooper, The Emergence of Crack Cocaine Abuse ,
* 2007 , Jared Ledgard, A Laboratory History of Narcotics , Volume 1: Amphetamines and Derivatives,
(specifically) The purified, dry form of certain illegal drugs, especially cocaine.
* 2011 , Manuel Suarez, To Be Or Not to Be a Real Cop ,
To purify a drug by crystallization.
To use a purified drug, especially cocaine, by heating it and inhaling the fumes produced.
* 2009 , Mackenzie Phillips, High On Arrival ,
* 2010 , George Case, Out of Our Heads: Rock 'n' Roll Before the Drugs Wore Off ,
* 2013 , John Markert, Hooked in Film: Substance Abuse on the Big Screen ,
(uncountable) The visible vapor/vapour, gases, and fine particles given off by burning or smoldering material.
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, title= (colloquial, countable) A cigarette.
(colloquial, countable, never plural) An instance of smoking a cigarette, cigar, etc.; the duration of this act.
* 1884 , (Mark Twain), (The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn), Chapter VII:
(uncountable, figuratively) A fleeting illusion; something insubstantial, evanescent, unreal, transitory, or without result.
(uncountable, figuratively) Something used to obscure or conceal; an obscuring condition; see also smoke and mirrors .
(uncountable) A light grey colour/color tinted with blue.
(military, uncountable) A particulate of solid or liquid particles dispersed into the air on the battlefield to degrade enemy ground or for aerial observation. Smoke has many uses--screening smoke, signaling smoke, smoke curtain, smoke haze, and smoke deception. Thus it is an artificial aerosol.
(baseball, slang) A fastball.
To inhale and exhale the smoke from a burning cigarette, cigar, pipe, etc.
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, title= To inhale and exhale tobacco smoke regularly or habitually.
To give off smoke.
* Milton
To preserve or prepare (food) for consumption by treating with smoke.
(slang) To perform ( music) energetically or skillfully. Almost always in present participle form.
(US, slang) To kill, especially with a gun.
(NZ, slang) To beat someone at something.
(obsolete) To fill or scent with smoke; hence, to fill with incense; to perfume.
* (Geoffrey Chaucer)
(obsolete) To smell out; to hunt out; to find out; to detect.
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(slang, obsolete, transitive) To ridicule to the face; to quiz.
To burn; to be kindled; to rage.
* Bible, Deuteronomy xxix. 20
To raise a dust or smoke by rapid motion.
* Dryden
To suffer severely; to be punished.
* Shakespeare
Of the colour known as smoke.
Made of or with smoke.
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As a noun freebase
is (chemistry) the purified, dry form of an amine, especially an alkaloid natural product, that is normally used in solution.As a verb freebase
is to purify a drug by crystallization.As a proper noun smoke is
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(Free base)Alternative forms
* free baseNoun
(en noun)page 75,
- The freebase' is heated in a retort, foil, or other container and the vapor is inhaled as the ' freebase vaporizes.
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- On June 9, 1980, national attention was brought to cocaine freebasing when comedian Richard Pryor suffered third degree burns allegedly while using a butane torch to heat cocaine freebase he had prepared with ether.
page 108,
- Note: this freebase methedrine will actually be a mixture of the DL and L-forms, from which the L-form is the most common used in the preparation of methamphetamine.
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- That day, I gave a class on making and using freebase'. This was one thing that was to be done perfectly, or you could end up with glass and ' freebase all over you.
Verb
(freebas)page 82,
- Richard, one of my friends in L.A., claimed to have invented freebasing — smoking cocaine in its base form—though it's likely that what he meant was that he introduced a whole bunch of people to the process.
page 169,
- With his nostrils ravaged, Crosby turned to drinking Cocaine mixed in glasses of wine, then took to smoking it by the novel technique of freebasing , where the drug is distilled down to its purest form through a process of filtration using ammonia and ether.
page 159,
- Roger Ebert pretty much agrees with Siskel's dismissive attitude toward the film, saying he only watched it because it was about freebasing cocaine and he wanted to see that, since he had heard so much about it.
smoke
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(wikipedia smoke)Alternative forms
* (l) (obsolete)Noun
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- I lit a pipe and had a good long smoke , and went on watching.
Synonyms
* (cigarette) cig, ciggy, cancer stick, fag (qualifier)Derived terms
* Big Smoke * holy smoke * no smoke without fire * secondhand smoke/second-hand smoke * sidestream smoke * smoke alarm * smoke and mirrors * smoke bomb * smokebox * smoke detector * smoke-dried * smoke eater * smoke-filled room * smoke-free zone * smokeho * smokehouse * smokejack * smoke jumper, smokejumper * smokeless * smoke ring * smokescreen/smoke screen/smoke-screen * smoke signal * smokestack * smoke tree * smoke wagon * Smokey the Bear * throwing smokeVerb
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- Hard by a cottage chimney smokes .
- Smoking the temple.
- I alone / Smoked his true person, talked with him.
- He was first smoked by the old Lord Lafeu.
- Upon that I began to smoke that they were a parcel of mummers.
- The anger of the Lord and his jealousy shall smoke against that man.
- Proud of his steeds, he smokes along the field.
- Some of you shall smoke for it in Rome.
Derived terms
(Terms derived from the verb "smoke") * chain-smoke * smoker * smoke out * smokingAdjective
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