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Meaning of heroin | Babel Free

Noun CEFR B2 Frequent
ˈhɛɹoʊ.ɪn

Definitions

  1. horse
  2. A powerful and addictive drug derived from opium producing intense euphoria, classed as an illegal narcotic in most of the world.
    countable, uncountable
  3. knight
  4. ox (strong clumsy person)
  5. master, hotshot

Equivalents

Català heroïna
Čeština heroin
Deutsch Heroin
Ελληνικά ηρωίνη
Esperanto heroino
Español caballo heroína
Eesti heroiin
فارسی هروئین
Suomi heroiini
Français héroïne
Հայերեն հերոին
Íslenska heróín
Italiano eroina
日本語 ヘロイン
ქართული ჰეროინი
한국어 헤로인
Kurdî eroîn heroîn
Македонски хероин
Nederlands heroïne
Polski heroina
Português cavalo heroína
Română heroină
Русский героин
Српски heroin heroina хероин
Svenska heroin
Kiswahili heroini
Türkçe eroin
Українська героїн
Tiếng Việt bạch phiến

Examples

“Wow, that heroin is in my blood / And the blood is in my head / Yeah, thank God that I'm good as dead / Ooohhh, thank your God that I'm not aware / And thank God that I just don't care / And I guess I just don't know”
“I saw a real strange, weird object / Standing up talking to the people / And I found out it was heroin / That deadly drug that go in your veins”
“The reason why Jon & Kate Plus 8 is such a hot topic is because it might all be a sham. It’s been claimed that Jon has a string of mistresses, that Kate had an affair with her bodyguard and that Baby Number Six is actually a shaved Ewok with a catastrophic heroin addiction. Or something.”
“Fentanyl, which looks like heroin, is a powerful synthetic painkiller that has been laced into heroin but is increasingly being sold by itself — often without the user’s knowledge.”
“Yeah, it does, though, it does. Heroin works basically everywhere because it’s heroin. It’s not a cellphone. Heroin has full coverage.”
“Okay, wel-, I’ll tell you where it stops: somewhere! Anytime someone asks, “Where does it stop?”, the answer is always fucking somewhere! You might let your kid have Twizzlers, but not inject black tar heroin! You d-You don’t just go, “Well, after the Twizzlers, where does it stop?”!”
“That’s because the second thing to know about Games Workshop is, as Gillen says, that Warhammer was what middle-class nerds did instead of heroin. It was just as expensive, and probably no better for your social life.”
“Strictly Orthodox, Porcia has bent her Fortune and Applications to the Advantage of the true Religion. In a word, no Perfection is feeble, or ſhines dim in Porcia; all is ſtrenuous, bright, confirm’d, and unexceptionable. She only is worthy to ſupply the Loſs of Ximena, in ſo great a Breaſt as Horatio’s, were Fortune to do what Merit has done, wou’d ſhe not make the Union? Where more juſtly cou’d we beſtow the Charms of a Heroin, who has done all things for Vertue and Honour, than in the Arms of a Hero, who has left nothing undone for Fame and Glory?”

CEFR level

B2
Upper Intermediate
This word is part of the CEFR B2 vocabulary — upper intermediate level.
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