Speedball
noun
1.
a game similar to soccer with the chief difference that a player catching the ball on the fly can pass it with the hands.
2.
Slang. any combination of a stimulant and a depressant taken together, especially a mixture of heroin and cocaine or heroin and methamphetamine injected into the bloodstream.
verb (used without object)
3.
Slang. to take a speedball, especially by injection.
noun
1.
(slang) a mixture of heroin with amphetamine or cocaine
speedball speed·ball (spēd’bôl’)
n.
An intravenous dose of cocaine mixed with heroin or an amphetamine.
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