crack baby

English

Etymology

From crack (“cocaine”) + baby.

Noun

crack baby (plural crack babies)

1. (derogatory) A child born to a mother who uses cocaine, especially crack cocaine, or any child with substance abuse related birth defects.
   • 1995 July, Katharine Greider, “Crackpot Ideas”, in Mother Jones Magazine, page 56:

     Developmental psychologist Claire Coles, who is also a clinician, has seen "crack babies" who were in fact colicky babies.

See also

• AIDS baby

Further reading

• prenatal cocaine exposure on Wikipedia.Wikipedia