freebase
or free-base
to purify (cocaine) by dissolving in ether, sodium hydroxide, etc., and filtering off the precipitate.
to ingest (freebased cocaine).
to freebase cocaine.
freebased cocaine.
Origin of freebase
1Other words from freebase
- freebaser, noun
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How to use freebase in a sentence
In many cases the hydrolysis of a salt is only partial, resulting in the formation of basic salts instead of the free base.
An Elementary Study of Chemistry | William McPhersonTetanine may be obtained as a free base by treating the hydrochloride with freshly precipitated moist silver oxide.
Poisons: Their Effects and Detection | Alexander Wynter BlythThis in acid solution is blue, and the free base is a dark-blue, almost black.
Principles and Practice of Fur Dressing and Fur Dyeing | William E. AustinThe manner in which the free base was obtained was briefly as follows.
British Dictionary definitions for freebase
/ (ˈfriːˌbeɪs) /
slang cocaine that has been refined by heating it in ether or some other solvent
to refine (cocaine) in this way
to smoke or inhale the fumes from (refined cocaine)
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