Freebase

Quick meaning: Freebase is a noun meaning (chemistry) The purified, dry form of an amine, especially an alkaloid natural product, that is normally used in solution.

Meaning

(chemistry) The purified, dry form of an amine, especially an alkaloid natural product, that is normally used in solution.

More Meanings

1. (specifically) The purified, dry form of certain illegal drugs, especially cocaine.
2. To purify a drug by crystallization.
3. To use a purified drug, especially cocaine, by heating it and inhaling the fumes produced.

Example Sentences

The freebase is heated in a retort, foil, or other container and the vapor is inhaled as the freebase vaporizes.

That day, I gave a class on making and using freebase. This was one thing that was to be done perfectly, or you could end up with glass and freebase all over you.

Richard, one of my friends in L.A., claimed to have invented freebasing— smoking cocaine in its base form—though it's likely that what he meant was that he introduced a whole bunch of people to the process.

Roger Ebert pretty much agrees with Siskel's dismissive attitude toward the film, saying he only watched it because it was about freebasing cocaine and he wanted to see that, since he had heard so much about it.

Word Forms

• freebases
• free base
• freebasing
• freebased

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include cocaine, base, amphetamine, superbase, formamide, pseudobase.

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