speedball

See also: speed ball and speed-ball

English

Alternative forms

• speed ball, speed-ball

Etymology

speed +‎ ball

Pronunciation

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Noun

speedball (countable and uncountable, plural speedballs)

1. (slang, countable) A mixture of heroin and cocaine or sometimes other drugs.

   Synonyms: powerball, over and under

   • 2016, Zadie Smith, Swing Time, New York, N.Y.: Penguin Press, →ISBN, page 233:

     This being Camden, every passing pisshead and stoner had a theory: bad E, dehydration, alcohol poisoning, probably done a speedball.

2. (slang, countable) Coffee with espresso.
3. (baseball, countable) A fastball.
4. (uncountable, sports) A competitive variant of paintball with an equal playing field, contrasted with woodsball.
5. (uncountable, sports) An Egyptian racquet sport.
6. (military, aviation) An improvised adhoc airdrop resupply pack, composed of ammo, food and water, and other supplies, stuffed into a body bag or duffle bag.

   Synonym: speed bag

Verb

speedball (third-person singular simple present speedballs, present participle speedballing, simple past and past participle speedballed)

1. (intransitive) To occur fast, as if trying to finish as soon as possible.
   • 2009, Alex Lemon, Happy: A Memoir‎^[1]:

     His words start to speedball. “Youneedtobestillwhenyou're inthere.”

2. (intransitive, slang) To take heroin and cocaine at the same time.

Anagrams

• balls deep, balls-deep