Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

k-hole

Word Rarity Uncommon

Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.47 in modern English

Syllables: k--hole
IPA

12

Scrabble Score

5

Letters

3

Syllables

5

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

The state of dissociation from (and lack of control over) the body that is commonly experienced after taking high doses of the drug ketamine.

Slang

Example Sentences

"Let's not focus on her. That'll be like entering a bad K-hole you'll never wake up from."
"Recreational users call it "special K," and the euphoric, hallucinatory experience it induces the "K-hole.""
"“They're getting their drugs mixed up,” she said. “If someone did a line of coke, it would be a very different size than if someone did a bump of ketamine, right? So if they're thinking it's cocaine and they do a line, they could go into a k-hole and be completely unable to move for hours. Maybe not hours, but for a while.”"

Etymology

From K (“ketamine”) + hole, from the notion that being in this state is comparable to being inside a hole, isolated or distanced from the real world.

Usage

Slang

Questions

What does k-hole mean?: The state of dissociation from (and lack of control over) the body that is commonly experienced after taking high doses of the drug ketamine.
Where does k-hole come from?: From K (“ketamine”) + hole, from the notion that being in this state is comparable to being inside a hole, isolated or distanced from the real world.

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