Schmeck
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech noun
Quick meaning: Schmeck is a noun meaning (Jewish culture) A smell or a taste; a nip of a drink etc.
Meaning
(Jewish culture) A smell or a taste; a nip of a drink etc.
More Meanings
- (slang) Heroin.
Example Sentences
The transistor radio swiped from an East 39th Street brownstone could be traded on a Harlem street corner for a "nickel's worth of schmeck" (a $5 bag of heroin).
[…] how he could help to flood the city with a deluge of drugs to take the place of the supply that had been confiscated by the police. Plenty for himself, too, he would have. Plenty of schmeck to keep himself charged for a long time.
Word Forms
- schmecks
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include savour, tast, taste, whiff, tang, zing.
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