speedball

speedball
/speed"bawl'/, n.
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.
v.i.
3. Slang. to take a speedball, esp. by injection.
[1940-45; SPEED + BALL1]

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