homebake
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
19
Scrabble Score
8
Letters
2
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
verb
To manufacture (recreational drugs) using the homebake method.
Australian usage; New Zealand usage; Slang; Transitive verb
noun
Any of various potent recreational drugs (e.g., heroin or morphine) prepared illicitly from commercially available opiates (especially codeine).
Australian usage; New Zealand usage; Slang; Uncountable
Example Sentences
- "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."
- "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."
- "Not true. Pharmacists have lots of trouble with continuous approaches from homebake makers. There is no end to their optimism, sometimes they succeed."
Etymology
Usage
Inflected Forms
homebakes (present, singular)
homebaking (participle, present)
homebaked (participle, past)
homebaked (past)
home-bake (alternative)