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Dr. Michael Vines, MD
Alex Spritzer, FNP, CARN-AP, PMHNP
Clinical Providers:
Natalie Foster, LPC-S, MS
Last Updated: December 11, 2025
Cocaine has had decades to pick up its own secret vocabulary. Some of these names sound harmless. Others sound almost silly. But they all point to the same drug. Knowing them can help you understand coded texts or conversations that might otherwise slip right past you.
People tend to use short, quick words when referring to cocaine, especially when they don’t want others to know what’s being discussed. You’ll run into names like:
They come from different eras and scenes, but they’re all talking about powdered cocaine.
Crack, which is smoked instead of snorted, picked up its own dictionary over the years. The names usually point to how the rocks look or how intense the high can be:
These terms show up more in street-level conversations than anywhere else.
