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Definition: Street Drug |
Street DrugNoun1. A drug that is taken for nonmedicinal reasons (usually for mind-altering effects); drug abuse can lead to physical and mental damage and (with some substances) dependence and addiction. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Synonym: Street DrugSynonym: drug of abuse (n). (additional references) |
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Health | Investigators discovered this reaction in the 1980s when heroin addicts in California who had taken an illicit street drug contaminated with MPTP began to develop severe parkinsonism. (references) | |
It was first introduced as a street drug in the 1960s and quickly gained a reputation as a drug that could cause bad reactions and was not worth the risk. Many people, after using the drug once, will not knowingly use it again. (references) | ||
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
street drug | 289 |
street drug price | 18 |
street drug information | 6 |
street drug identification | 4 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "d-e-e-g-r-r-s-t-t-u" | |
-2 letters: gestured, gesturer, guttered, resurged, reutters, trudgers, trusteed, turreted, utterers. | |
-3 letters: gesture, getters, guested, gutters, regrets, resurge, reutter, terrets, trudger, trudges, trusted, trustee, truster, turrets, ureters, uttered, utterer. | |
-4 letters: degust, desert, deters, detest, duster, edgers, egrets, etudes, getter, greeds, greets, gusted, gutted, gutter, regret, rested, rester, retest, retted, retuse, reused, rudest, rusted, rutted, segued. | |
| Words containing the letters "d-e-e-g-r-r-s-t-t-u" | |
+3 letters: understrength. | |
+5 letters: daguerreotypist. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)53 74 72 65 65 74 44 72 75 67 |
| Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01010011 01110100 01110010 01100101 01100101 01110100 00100000 01000100 01110010 01110101 01100111 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)S t r e e t   D r u g |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0053 0074 0072 0065 0065 0074 0044 0072 0075 0067 |
Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)538684717186238848773 |
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