crillz

alternative crills

1. slanguncountableAfrican-American VernacularCrack cocaine.

   Mobb Deep album got some phat beats, but it's those same tired rhymes. Talkin' about selling crillz or murderin' a brother ain't whut it's all about.

   1996 March, E-Cheeba, quotee, “Mail”, in Vibe, volume 4, number 2, New York, N.Y.: Time Publishing Ventures, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 28, column 1

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   There are several clues in Street Talk as to how [Randy] Kearse used to make his money, all of them dictionary entries for crack cocaine. There is rock (a piece of the drug), covert names for crack: crillz, crizz, crizzack, jacks and there is the chilling expression for a crack addict: rock star.

   [2007 May 29, Ed Pilkington, “Ex-crack dealer defines word on the street”, in Alan Rusbridger, editor, The Guardian, London: Guardian News & Media, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 15 Jun 2021

   Things went smooth. I dished out bags to fiends and snatched their money efficiently. Their chatter had me pissed off, though. I don't know how Crackhead Chucky knew I was selling crills so fast.

   2007, Blaine Martin, Hustle Hard: For All Debts, Public and Private, New York, N.Y.: Augustus Publishing, →ISBN, page 234

   There was some funny shit that would go down in the midst of all that carnage. Like this one time, this fiend approached me and Meth while we were selling. He didn't have any cash, but he wanted two dimes of crillz (crack) in exchange for a sheet of acid with a picture of a skull and crossbones. Meth figured it was a good trade, so he did it. I said, "Man, you are fuckin' crazy!"

   2018, U-God [Lamont Hawkins], Raw: My Journey Into The Wu-Tang, New York, N.Y.: Picador, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 129

   Synonyms: benzoylmethylecgonine, blow, Bolivian marching powder, booger sugar, boots, California corn flakes, charlie, ching