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Glossary entry

English term or phrase:

heroin cribs

English answer:

heroin houses

Added to glossary by Matheus Chaud
Jul 15, 2016 07:54
7 yrs ago
English term

heroin cribs

English Other Other Drug traffic
Tajikistan is an important staging area on the drug route between Afghanistan’s poppy fields
and the proliferating heroin cribs of Russia and the former Soviet republics.

No further context available.
Responses
4 +2 heroin houses
3 +5 dens
Change log

Jul 18, 2016 18:46: airmailrpl changed "Edited KOG entry" from "<a href="/profile/31701">LM's</a> old entry - "heroin cribs"" to "" heroin houses""

Sep 8, 2016 00:31: Matheus Chaud changed "Edited KOG entry" from "<a href="/profile/21987">airmailrpl's</a> old entry - "heroin cribs"" to "" heroin houses...""

Discussion

airmailrpl Jul 15, 2016:
crib crib
home, domicile, or dwelling
http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=crib

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heroin houses

heroin cribs => heroin houses

"a heroin crib" refers to an area where heroin is used (injected or smoked)

Urban Dictionary: heroin house
www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=heroin house
It seems like the police raid the local heroin house every other week. I wish the city would just demolish it already. by cheroin January 27, 2016. 2 0. Buy the mug ...

Neighborhood heroin house dismantled, police say | NJ.com
www.nj.com/camden/index.ssf/2016/.../raid_on_camden_county_...
Jun 16, 2016 - Neighborhood heroin house dismantled, police say. glo twp drug raid. In this photo provided by Gloucester Township police, the Fairways ...

Officials: Arrest made in heroin house with history of complaints - Story ...
www.fox46charlotte.com/news/local-news/156972021-story
Jun 10, 2016 - The Rowan County Sheriff's Office, NC State Bureau of Investigation (SBI), and Salisbury Police busted a heroin house with history of ...

crib
home, domicile, or dwelling
http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=crib
Peer comment(s):
agree Charles Davis : Quite right
35 mins
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agree Yasutomo Kanazawa
1 hr
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neutral B D Finch : I prefer "dens" as that can apply to flats too.
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dens

A meaning of crib is a place; here den can be used for crib.

http://onlineslangdictionary.com/meaning-definition-of/crib

http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=crib

http://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/crib

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Note added at 2 hrs (2016-07-15 10:24:12 GMT)
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'Haunts' is another option.
Peer comment(s):
agree Charles Davis : Yes, in the sense of the old opium dens, places where people went to smoke opium. Heroin cribs are places where people take heroin.
3 hrs
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agree Yasutomo Kanazawa
3 hrs
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agree philgoddard : I couldn't find many hits for this, though "drug cribs" gets a few. Unless I'm out of touch with contemporary parlance, "dens" might have been a better choice of word.
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agree Cilian O'Tuama : Where did Neil Ashby go? I wanted to ask him sth.
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agree B D Finch
1 day 2 hrs
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