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sherm en · NOUN

Pronunciation

• /ʃɜː(ɹ)m/
• (Southern-England) audio

Etymology

From Nat Sherman, a cigarette brand and former tobacco store in New York City, which used to be the most popular brand to dip in PCP, because unlike most other cigarettes, they did not fall apart when wet.

Meanings

1. (slang, uncountable) The drug phencyclidine (PCP).
2. (countable, slang) A cigarette soaked in PCP.
   • It's like a sherm high niggas think they learned to fly, but they burn, motherfucker, you deserve to die. 1996, “Hit 'em Up”, performed by Tupac Shakur:
   • We gon smoke a dip, all of it; not a little bit; we gon smoke a sherm stick. 1995, “Sherm Stick”, performed by Jayo Felony:
3. (countable, derogatory, slang, uncountable) A degenerate; a person not worthy of respect.
   • So there you got it. Pimp got a robbery charge hung around his neck, and Rome? That sherm fucked around and tried to buy some dope from an undercover cop. A whole lotta dope. 2006, Noire [pseudonym], Thug-A-Licious: An Urban Erotic Tale, New York, N.Y.: One World, Ballantine Books, →ISBN, page 119:

Forms

Deriveds

sherm stick · sherm-head · shermed out · shermed · shermhead