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chemmie en · NOUN · etymology 1

Etymology

From chem(ical) + -ie, compare chem (“chemical”).

Meanings

  1. (rare, slang) A chemical, especially a recreational drug.
    • “You're walking in your sleep.” / She looked about in confusion, then crossed arms over her chest. “Oh, my.” / “You aren't on anything, are you?” / The confusion in her eyes gave way to indignation. “I'd never touch a chemmie during mission, sir.” 2016, Scott Russell Sanders, Dancing in Dreamtime, Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press, →ISBN, page 267:
    • Within the next week he gave up all the rest of his chemmies: the wakers and dozers, the vim-pills, the breeze capsules. Bottle after bottle vanished down the recycling chute. 1996, Scott Russell Sanders, Terrarium, page 79:
    • I'd picked up enough earlier to know that she was involved in some huge and maybe seriously dangerous deal involving several of the larger Central American countries her companies controlled and, whisper went, some nukes or chemmies, depending who you heard. 2016, Michael Moorcock, King of the City:

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Synonyms

gear · horse · dope · drug · stuff · substance · recreational drug

chemmie en · NOUN · etymology 2

Etymology

From chem(in de fer) + -ie.

Meanings

  1. (alt-of, alternative, uncountable) Alternative form of chemmy (“the card game called chemin de fer”).
    alt of chemmy
    • And then the opera would be over, the tourists go home from their mild game of chemmie, and as the hour approached one the heavy gamblers would gather, like communicants of some esoteric faith about to celebrate their ritual. 1930, Donn Byrne, The Golden Goat, London: Sampson Low, Marston & Co., Ltd., page 122:
    • After 1960, when the Gaming Act legalised gambling, there was chemmie or roulette to go for at the Clermont Club above Annabel's in Berkeley Square or at Siegi's in Charles Street, at the Playboy Club in Park Lane, Apron Strings in Chelsea and anywhere else where his credit held. 2019, William Feaver, The Lives of Lucian Freud: The Restless Years, 1922–1968, New York, NY: Alfred A. Knopf, →ISBN, page 510: