schmeck

schmeck (plural schmecks)

1. (Jewish culture) A smell or a taste; a nip of a drink etc.

schmeck (uncountable)

1. (slang) Heroin.
   • 1974, Duane Denfeld, Street-wise Criminology, page 99:

     The transistor radio swiped from an East 39th Street brownstone could be traded on a Harlem street corner for a "nickel's worth of schmeck" (a $5 bag of heroin).

   • 2010, Lawrance Maynard, The Pig Is Fat, page 249:

     […] how he could help to flood the city with a deluge of drugs to take the place of the supply that had been confiscated by the police. Plenty for himself, too, he would have. Plenty of schmeck to keep himself charged for a long time.

• smack

• Audio

  (file)

schmeck

1. singular imperative of schmecken