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speed⋅ball

  [speed-bawl]
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–noun
1. a game similar to soccer with the chief difference that a player catching the ball on the fly can pass it with the hands.
2. Slang. any combination of a stimulant and a depressant taken together, esp. a mixture of heroin and cocaine or heroin and methamphetamine injected into the bloodstream.
–verb (used without object)
3. Slang. to take a speedball, esp. by injection.
Origin:
1940–45; speed + ball 1
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speed·ball   (spēd'bôl')   
n.  

  1. A game resembling soccer but differing mainly in that a ball caught on the fly may be passed with the hands and points may be scored by a forward pass over the goal line.

  2. Slang An intravenous dose of cocaine mixed with heroin or an amphetamine.

The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
Copyright © 2009 by Houghton Mifflin Company.
Published by Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved.
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Slang Dictionary
speedball

  1. n.
    [in baseball] a fast (pitched) ball. : The pitcher threw a speedball, and I didn't even see it!
Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions by Richard A. Spears.Fourth Edition.
Copyright 2007. Published by McGraw Hill.
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Medical Dictionary

speedball speed·ball (spēd'bôl')
n.
An intravenous dose of cocaine mixed with heroin or an amphetamine.

The American Heritage® Stedman's Medical Dictionary
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