Noun: freebase
| Singular | freebase |
| Plural | freebases |
Sample Sentences
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The freebase is heated in a retort, foil, or other container and the vapor is inhaled as the freebase vaporizes. [1987, Richard Seymour, David Elvin Smith, The Physician's Guide to Psychoactive Drugs, page 75:]
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On June 9, 1980, national attention was brought to cocaine freebasing when comedian Richard Pryor suffered third degree burns allegedly while using a butane torch to heat cocaine freebase he had prepared with ether. [2002, Edith Fairman Cooper, The Emergence of Crack Cocaine Abuse, page 18:]
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2007, Jared Ledgard, A Laboratory History of Narcotics, Volume 1: Amphetamines and Derivatives, page 108,
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Note: this freebase methedrine will actually be a mixture of the DL and L-forms, from which the L-form is the most common used in the preparation of methamphetamine.
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That day, I gave a class on making and using freebase. This was one thing that was to be done perfectly, or you could end up with glass and freebase all over you. [2011, Manuel Suarez, To Be Or Not to Be a Real Cop, page 72:]
Nouns inflected like freebase
soldier's woundwort,
Nicosian,
whopper,
greypate,
tactile sign language,
chronotrope,
Rosie Lee,
dissentient,
photoinactivator,
sulphonediimine,
coastal waterfall,
residuary devise,
bituminization,
nitrosonaphthol,
smṛiti,
geosphere,
backscreen,
mensuralist,
flocculate,
flocculant, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
1. Etymology tree
2. Proto-Indo-European *preyH-
3. Proto-Indo-European *-ós
4. Proto-Indo-European *priHós
5. Proto-Germanic *frijwaz
6. Proto-West Germanic *friu
7. Old English frēo
8. Middle English fre
9. English free
10. Proto-Indo-European *gʷeh₂-?
11. Proto-Indo-European *gʷem-
12. Proto-Indo-European *-tis
13. Proto-Indo-European *gʷémtis
14. Proto-Hellenic *gʷə́tis
15. Ancient Greek βᾰ́σῐς (bắsĭs)bor.
16. Latin basis
17. Old French basebor.
18. Middle English base
19. English base
20. English freebase
21. From free + base.
Verbs referencing "freebase"
Spanish Nouns
bazuco.