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• home-bake

語源

From home +‎ bake.

動詞

homebake (third-person singular simple present homebakes, present participle homebaking, simple past and past participle homebaked)

1. (transitive, rare) To bake (food) at home.
   • 1968 February, “More cherries per pie [advertisement]”, in Ladies' Home Journal, volume 85, number 2, Philadelphia, Pa.: Curtis Publishing Company, page 47:

     Comstock cherry pie-filling has more fruit. That’s why there’s no guessing where the filling leaves off and the cherries begin. So next time you want to homebake the cherriest cherry pie this side of a cherry tree, make it easy.

2. (transitive, Australia, New Zealand, slang) To manufacture (recreational drugs) using the homebake method.

関連する語

名詞

homebake (uncountable)

1. (Australia, New Zealand, slang) Any of various potent recreational drugs (e.g., heroin or morphine) prepared illicitly from commercially available opiates (especially codeine).
   • 2002 November 6, Steve B, “Re: Guy Fawkes Nite”, in nz.general‎ (Usenet):

     We'll be reduced to crawling around dozens of firework shops trying to accumulate enough sparklers to make a bomb, just like the grind of getting together enough legal analegesics for homebake.

   • 2003 August 13, Kerry, “Re: cold and flu tablets”, in nz.general‎ (Usenet):

     Not true. Pharmacists have lots of trouble with continuous approaches from homebake makers. There is no end to their optimism, sometimes they succeed.

Further reading

• “homebake n.”, in Green’s Dictionary of Slang, Jonathon Green, 2016–present.
• “homebake v.”, in Green’s Dictionary of Slang, Jonathon Green, 2016–present.