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Glossary of Street Slang

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B
Banksia Hill – juvenile detention for young people who have been
sentenced by the court
Bong – instrument to smoke marijuana
Bucket – instrument to smoke marijuana
Burned – ripped off

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C
Cage – beg for money
Chasing – looking for drugs
Cleanskin – no criminal record
Cone – device to smoke marijuana
Cops – police
Courier – someone carrying or delivering drugs
Crew – group of mates
Crop – marijuana Crow – prostitute

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D
Dardy – very good or good looking
Dees – pain clothed police or dees
Demon – unmarked police car
Dog - informer
Dole – government allowance
Druggie – drug user
Durry – cigarette

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F
Fast Eddys – burger restaurant
Feed – something to eat
Foil – a $25 bag of marijuana
Freddy - screwdriver
Fruit – lesbian
Fruit Lexia – cheap cask wine

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G
Goon – Cheap cask wine

H
Hammer – heroin
Hot shot – lethal dose of heroin
Hottie – stole car

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J
JAG – Juvenile Aide Group – police juvenile agency for youth at risk
Joint – marijuana cigarette
Jump on it – dilute the drugs
Juvie – 1) Young person aged 17 or under 2) a juvenile detention centre

 

M
Macers - McDonalds
Monage – police
Monkey bus – blue paddy wagon police car
Mull – finely shredded marijuana

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N
Narc – undercover cop or detective
Noongars – Aboriginals
NZ green – mull

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O
One in, one out – only one police officer in an unmarked police car
One up – alone

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P
Packet - $50 bag of amphetamines
Passages – Perth youth centre
Pinches – arrests
Pothead – heavy marijuana user
Poxy – crap, pathetic
Properly dressed – armed with a gun
Pusher – dealer

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R
Rangeview – juvenile detention centre for young people who have not
yet been sentenced by the court.
Rollies – self-rolled cigarette from packet tobacco.
Runner – drug courier

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S
Shat – freak out Shot – dose of drugs
Sick – cool
Skank – promiscuous girl
Smash – fight
Smashed – get drunk
Sniff – inhale paint or glue
Spin – tobacco in a joint
Squat – abandoned building
Squatting – living in an abandoned building
Squealed – dobbed
Stoned – too much marijuana
Streetie – adult homeless person
Streetkid – young person on the streets

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T
Tags – graffiti
Top yourself – kill yourself
Trambys – Perth centre for homeless adults

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V
VB – Victoria Bitter, a popular beer drunk by the homeless

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W
Weed – marijuana
Weight – gram of heroin

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Y
Youth allowance – government payment to young people