Freebase Definition
frēbās
freebased, freebase, freebases, freebasing
verb
To purify (cocaine) by treating its powdered hydrochloride form with an alkaloid solution such as ammonia and then using a heated solvent to separate out the precipitate.
American Heritage
To prepare or use such a form of (cocaine)
Webster's New World
To use (cocaine purified in this way) by smoking it or by inhaling the fumes after burning it.
American Heritage
To purify a drug by crystallization.
Wiktionary
noun
Cocaine purified by this method.
American Heritage Medicine
A concentrated form of cocaine for smoking, prepared by extracting, or freeing, the alkaloid, or base, from a salt of the drug.
Webster's New World
Other Word Forms of Freebase
Noun
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freebase
Plural:
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