2. Noun. (slang) Coffee with espresso. ¹
3. Noun. (baseball) A fastball. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Speedball
1. [v -ED, -ING, -S]
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1. Principles and Practice of Show-card Writing, Prepared in the Extension by Lawrence E. Blair (1922)
"speedball pen was invented. Contrary to the universally used underfeed, it carried
all the ink in a simple double reservoir feeder mounted upon its back. ..."
2. Preventing HIV Infection Among Injecting Drug Users in High Risk Countries by Institute of Medicine (U.S.), National Academies Press (U.S. (2007)
"Risk factors (based on univariate analyses) included a history of sexual intercourse
with an HIV- seropositive partner, and frequency of speedball injection ..."
3. Drugs, Crime, and the Justice System (1992)
"Cocaine and Heroin Dynamite Goofball speedball Cocaine, Heroin, and LSD Frisco
Special Frisco speedball PCP and Marijuana Wac Zoom PCP and Crack Beam Me Up ..."
4. Cocaine Use in America: Epidemmiologic and Clinical Perspectives edited by Nicholas J. Kozel, Edgar H. Adams (1996)
"In fact, the "speedball" is more risky because at high doses both cocaine and
the narcotics depress the respiratory center. At present, several cities are ..."
5. Prevention Plus III: Assessing Alcohol and Other Drug Prevention Programs at by Jean A. Linney, Abraham Wandersman (1993)
"... H, hard candy, joy powder, scag, smack, speedball (cocaine and heroin injected),
white horse, whiz bang Lysergic Acid Diethylamide (LSD): acid, blotter, ..."
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