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  • noun South Africa The local name for crystal methamphetamine crystal meth or speed.

Etymologies

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Examples

  • It went on just like this one -- _tik, tik, tik_ -- but it did not require shaking or squeezing.

    The Walrus Hunters A Romance of the Realms of Ice 1859

  • How about figuring out what the trip tik is supposed to be for the 3 remaining years so the rest of us can get somewhere other than this dank and dark place you have us stuck in now.

    CNN Poll: Obama approval under 50 percent 2009

  • Legislation to have pseudoephedrine - a key ingredient in the manufacturing of the drug "tik" or methamphetamine - reclassified, is in the pipeline, the Democratic Alliance said on Sunday.

    ANC Daily News Briefing 2008

  • Increasing amounts of the drugs commonly known as "tik" and

    ANC Daily News Briefing 2007

  • Recently he startled a public gathering by asking what "tik" was.

    The Native Paranoia of Thabo Mbeki 2007

  • In December 2000, police traced illegally imported drugs used to manufacture methamphetamine or "tik" to a house in Woodstock, Cape

    ANC Daily News Briefing 2006

  • "No prison will be too overcrowded to break the back of those who deal in the misery of our people through dealing in and selling drugs such as tik to our children," he said.

    ANC Daily News Briefing 2005

  • The spiralling use of the drug "tik" in South Africa, especially among the youth, came under the spotlight in Parliament on Tuesday, with Correctional Services Minister Ngconde Balfour vowing to

    ANC Daily News Briefing 2005

  • The Western Cape's escalating drug problem, particularly around the "tik" (or methamphetamine) phenomenon, was under the microscope on Wednesday during a speaker's debate in the provincial legislature.

    ANC Daily News Briefing 2004

  • A group of greek pontians is dancing "tik" in front of the holy monastery "Panagia Soumela" (Macka).

    WN.com - Photown News 2010

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