sherm

English

Etymology

From Nat Sherman, a cigarette brand and former tobacco store in New York City, which used to be the most popular brand to dip in PCP, because unlike most other cigarettes, they didn't fall apart when wet.

Noun

sherm (plural sherms)

  1. (slang) The drug phencyclidine (PCP)
  2. (slang) A cigarette soaked in PCP
    • 1995, “Sherm Stick”, performed by Jayo Felony:
      We gon smoke a dip, all of it; not a little bit; we gon smoke a sherm stick.
    • 1996, “Hit 'em Up”, performed by Tupac Shakur:
      It's like a sherm high niggas think they learned to fly, but they burn, motherfucker, you deserve to die.
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