Eight Ball In Spanish Slang
What does 8 ball mean.
Eight ball in spanish slang. Eighth of an ounce 3 5grams most commonly reffering to coke. English term or phrase. Spanish nouns have a gender which is either feminine like la mujer or la luna or masculine like el hombre or el sol. It appears mentioned in a report referring to the amount of drugs purchased by a defendant.
The term appears to have originated in the mid 1980s at least in print and as the citations below indicate the going rate for such an item at that time ranged from 300 to 350. I m just looking for the equivalent slang term in spanish. A derogatory term for a black person 1919 on account of the pool ball s color a turd 1997 because of color and shape and a group of prisoners serving eight year sentences 2000. More specifically for 3 5 grams of cocaine.
Green s dictionary of slang records several other though less common slang uses of eight ball. F if you knock the eight ball in before you get all your other balls in you lose the game. An 8 ball also commonly called eight ball is approximately an eighth of an ounce ranging from 3 to 3 5 grams of an illegal drug most often cocaine.