Special K
English
Etymology
Initial of Kellogg Company. The drug was nicknamed humorously after the cereal, since it begins with the letter k.
Pronunciation
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Proper noun
Special K
- A breakfast cereal made primarily from rice and wheat.
- 1980, Stephen King, The Mist:
- He seemed better this morning; he had eaten two donuts and a bowl of Special K for breakfast.
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Noun
Special K (uncountable)
- (slang) Ketamine, used as a hallucinogen.
- 1995, Harmony Korine, Kids, spoken by Fidget:
- Yeah, it's called the euphoric blockbuster and it's supposed to make Special K look weak.
- 2008 October, Paul Scott, “Was the Prozac revolution all in our heads?”, in Men's Health, volume 23, number 8, ISSN 1054-4836, page 149:
- Ketamine, a powerful anesthetic that acts on an entirely different neurotransmitter system (and which has been ingested in rave clubs as Special K) was recently the subject of a glowing study by the National Institute of Mental Health.
- 2013, Chuck Palahniuk, Doomed, page 58:
- The soul leaves the sedated body and is free to travel, according to the not-exact testimony of numerous drugged-out Special K abusers.
- [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."]
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Further reading
Special K on Wikipedia.Wikipedia - Special K (disambiguation) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia