crack baby
English
Etymology
From crack (“cocaine (slang)”) + baby
Noun
crack baby (plural crack babies)
- (derogatory) A child born to a mother who uses cocaine, especially crack cocaine or any child with substance abuse related birth defects
- 1995 Mother Jones Magazine
- Developmental psychologist Claire Coles, who is also a clinician, has seen "crack babies" who were in fact colicky babies.