K-hole
English
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Etymology
[edit]From K (“ketamine”) + hole, from the notion that being in this state is comparable to being inside a hole, isolated or distanced from the real world.
Pronunciation
[edit]Audio (General Australian): (file)
Noun
[edit]- (slang) The state of dissociation from (and lack of control over) the body commonly experienced after taking relatively high doses of the drug ketamine.
- 2018 May 8, Moises Velasquez-Manoff, “Ketamine Stirs Up Hope—and Controversy—as a Depression Drug”, in WIRED:
- Recreational users call it "special K," and the euphoric, hallucinatory experience it induces the "K-hole."
- 2019 August 9, Joshua Azizi, “Shambhala Music Festival makes harm reduction a priority”, in The Georgia Straight[1]:
- “They're getting their drugs mixed up,” she said. “If someone did a line of coke, it would be a very different size than if someone did a bump of ketamine, right? So if they're thinking it's cocaine and they do a line, they could go into a k-hole and be completely unable to move for hours. Maybe not hours, but for a while.”