tik
/tɪk/noun [mass noun] South African informal
The drug methamphetamine, especially in a powdered crystalline form: four suspects were arrested when officers found nine packets of tik in the vehicle...
- Throughout her pregnancy she was smoking up to three bags of tik a day.
- My best childhood friend is now a tik addict who has spent time in Pollsmoor for armed robbery.
- Drug abuse, especially the use of tik, remains a major headache for city authorities.
Origin
Early 21st century: perhaps imitative of the distinctive popping sound made when the crystalline form of the drug is lit and smoked.
- strong meat
- strong-minded
- strong-mindedness
- strongness
- strong on
- strongpoint
- strongroom
- strong safety
- strong side
- strong silent man
- strong silent type
- strong-smelling
- strong stress
- strong suit
- strong water
- strong-willed
- Strong, William
- strongwoman
- strong wood
- strong woods
- strongylaster
- strongylate
- strongyle
- strongylid
- strongyloid