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FREE-BASE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does free-base mean? 

FREE-BASE (verb)
  The verb FREE-BASE has 1 sense:

1. use (purified cocaine) by burning it and inhaling the fumesplay

  Familiarity information: FREE-BASE used as a verb is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


FREE-BASE (verb)

 Conjugation: 
Present simple: I / you / we / they free-base  Listen to US pronunciation  Listen to GB pronunciation ... he / she / it free-bases  Listen to US pronunciation  Listen to GB pronunciation
Past simple: free-based  Listen to US pronunciation  Listen to GB pronunciation
Past participle: free-based  Listen to US pronunciation  Listen to GB pronunciation
-ing form: free-basing  Listen to US pronunciation  Listen to GB pronunciation


Sense 1

Meaning:

Use (purified cocaine) by burning it and inhaling the fumes

Classified under:

Verbs of eating and drinking

Synonyms:

base; free-base

Hypernyms (to "free-base" is one way to...):

do drugs; drug (use recreational drugs)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s
Somebody ----s something


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