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homebake en · NOUN

Etymology

From home + bake.

Meanings

1. (Australia, New-Zealand, slang, uncountable) Any of various potent recreational drugs (e.g., heroin or morphine) prepared illicitly from commercially available opiates (especially codeine).
   • We'll be reduced to crawling around dozens of firework shops trying to accumulate enough sparklers to make a bomb, just like the grind of getting together enough legal analegesics^([sic]) for homebake. 2002 November 6, Steve B, “Re: Guy Fawkes Nite”, in nz.general (Usenet):
   • Not true. Pharmacists have lots of trouble with continuous approaches from homebake makers. There is no end to their optimism, sometimes they succeed. 2003 August 13, Kerry, “Re: cold and flu tablets”, in nz.general (Usenet):

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homebake en · VERB

Etymology

From home + bake.

Meanings

1. (rare, transitive) To bake (food) at home.
   • Comstock cherry pie-filling has more fruit. That’s why there’s no guessing where the filling leaves off and the cherries begin. So next time you want to homebake the cherriest cherry pie this side of a cherry tree, make it easy. 1968 February, “More cherries per pie [advertisement]”, in Ladies' Home Journal, volume 85, number 2, Philadelphia, Pa.: Curtis Publishing Company, page 47:
2. (Australia, New-Zealand, slang, transitive) To manufacture (recreational drugs) using the homebake method.

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Relateds

homebaker · homebaked