methamphetamine

English

Etymology

From meth- +‎ amphetamine; 1945–1950.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˌmɛθæmˈfɛtəˌmiːn/, /ˌmɛθæmˈfɛtəˌmɪn/

• Audio (Southern England):

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Noun

methamphetamine (countable and uncountable, plural methamphetamines)

1. A highly addictive phenethylamine stimulant drug. Its systematic (IUPAC) name is (S)-N-methyl-1-phenylpropan-2-amine.

   Synonyms: crank, crystal meth, ice, meth, methedrine, speed; see also Thesaurus:methamphetamine

   • 1960, J[ohn] J[acob] Lewis, “Central Nervous System Stimulants”, in An Introduction to Pharmacology, Edinburgh; London: E[dward] & S[tuart] Livingstone Ltd., →OCLC, page 288:

     Methamphetamine is more potent than dexamphetamine which is in turn more potent than its racemate amphetamine.

Derived terms

• crystal methamphetamine
• levomethamphetamine
• methamphetamine hydrochloride
• methylenedioxymethamphetamine

Translations

the drug (S)-N-methyl-1-phenylpropan-2-amine

• Afrikaans: metamfetamien
• Arabic: ميثامفيتامين
• Armenian: մեթամֆետամին (metʻamfetamin)
• Azerbaijani: metamfetamin, patı
• Catalan: metamfetamina f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 甲基苯丙胺 (zh) (jiǎjī běnbǐng'àn), 甲基安非他命 (zh) (jiǎjī'ānfēitāmìng), 冰毒 (zh) (bīngdú)

• Czech: pervitin (cs) m, metamfetamin m
• Dutch: methamfetamine (nl) f
• Estonian: metamfetamiin
• Finnish: metamfetamiini (fi), amfetamiini (fi)
• French: méthamphétamine (fr) f
• German: Methamphetamin n
• Greek: μεθαμφεταμίνη (el) (methamfetamíni)
• Hebrew: מתאמפטמין
• Hungarian: metamfetamin (hu)
• Icelandic: metamfetamín n
• Indonesian: metamfetamin, shabu, shabu-shabu, syabu, syabu-syabu
• Italian: metanfetamina (it) f
• Japanese: メタンフェタミン (metanfetamin), ヒロポン (ja) (hiropon)
• Korean: 메스암페타민 (meseuampetamin), 히로뽕 (hiroppong)
• Malay: syabu (ms)
• Maori: tioata whakaihi, pōau-pī
• Persian: مت‌آمفتامین
• Polish: metamfetamina (pl) f
• Portuguese: metanfetamina (pt) f
• Romanian: metanfetamină f
• Russian: метамфетами́н (ru) m (metamfetamín)
• Spanish: metanfetamina (es)
• Swedish: metamfetamin (sv) n
• Tagalog: shabu (common), bato (tl) (slang)
• Thai: เมทเอมเฟตามีน (méet-eem-fee-taa-miin), ไอซ์ (aís) (informal)
• Turkish: metamfetamin

Further reading

• methamphetamine on Wikipedia.Wikipedia