Special K

English

Etymology

Initial of Kellogg Company. The drug was nicknamed humorously after the cereal, since it begins with the letter k.

Proper noun

A breakfast cereal made primarily from rice and wheat.

Noun

Special K (uncountable)

(slang) The pain-killing drug ketamine, used as a hallucinogen.
- 2018, Moises Velasquez-Manoff, "Ketamine Stirs Up Hope—and Controversy—as a Depression Drug" (8 May 2018), WIRED.
  Recreational users call it "special K," and the euphoric, hallucinatory experience it induces the "K-hole."

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