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May 27, 2012
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speed•ball



Pronunciation: (spēd'bôl"), [key]
—n.
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, esp. a mixture of heroin and cocaine or heroin and methamphetamine injected into the bloodstream.

—v.i.
Slang.to take a speedball, esp. by injection.

Random House Unabridged Dictionary, Copyright © 1997, by Random House, Inc., on Infoplease.

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