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meth en · NOUN · etymology 1

Pronunciation

  • /mɛθ/
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Etymology

Clipping of methamphetamine.

Meanings

  1. (countable, informal, uncountable) Methamphetamine, especially in the form of the crystalline hydrochloride.

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Deriveds

crystal meth · meth cook · methhead · meth mouth

Relateds

tweaker

Translations (11)

es meta (methamphetamine) · cs piko (methamphetamine) · sv metatjack (methamphetamine) · cs párno (methamphetamine) · fa شیشه (methamphetamine) · cs perník (methamphetamine) · cs peří (methamphetamine) · cs péčko (methamphetamine) · cmn(methamphetamine) · ru мет (methamphetamine) · cmn 冰毒 (methamphetamine)

wikidata: Q191924

meth en · NOUN · etymology 2

Pronunciation

  • /mɛθ/
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Etymology

Clipping of methadone.

Meanings

  1. (countable, informal, uncountable) Methadone.
    • Dunno why you want to try and make last any longer than it already does. Meth has to be the single most wicked shit I ever involved myself with. But as far as what it actually does, your best bet would be to trot down to the local library and look it up. 1998 November 14, Markus, “Re: METH”, in alt.recovery (Usenet):

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meth en · NOUN · etymology 3

Pronunciation

  • /mɛθ/
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Etymology

From meths or methylated spirits, as stereotypically drunk by tramps.

Meanings

  1. (derogatory, qualifier:Liverpool; Manchester; Liverpool; Manchester) A tramp.

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Relateds

wino

meth en · NOUN · etymology 4

Pronunciation

  • /mɛθ/
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Etymology

From metheglin, from Welsh meddyglyn, from meddyg (“medicinal”) (from Latin medicus) + llyn (“liquor”) (cognate with Irish lionn and Gaelic leann).

Meanings

  1. (countable, uncountable) A spiced mead, originally from Wales.
    • The Russians, Swedes, Danes, and those of Northern Inhabitants, exceed all the rest, having made the drinking of Brandy, Aqua Vitae, Hydromel, Beer, Mum, Meth, and other Liquors in great quantitites, so familiar to them, that they usually drink our countrymen to death. 1678, John Worlidge, Vinetum Britannicum, or a Treatise of Cider, 3rd edit.:

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meth en · NOUN · etymology 5

Pronunciation

  • /mɛθ/
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Etymology

Clipping of method, which see.

Meanings

  1. (countable, slang, uncountable) Marijuana.

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