Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1980 (noun and verb), in reference to cocaine. As a chemical process, it returns a salt form of an alkaloid to its pure form. Related: Freebased; freebasing.
Wiktionary
alt. 1 (context chemistry English) The purified, dry form of an amine, especially an alkaloid natural product, that is normally used in solution. 2 (context specifically English) The purified, dry form of certain illegal drugs, especially cocaine. n. 1 (context chemistry English) The purified, dry form of an amine, especially an alkaloid natural product, that is normally used in solution. 2 (context specifically English) The purified, dry form of certain illegal drugs, especially cocaine. vb. 1 To purify a drug by crystallization. 2 To use a purified drug, especially cocaine, by heating it and inhale the fumes produced.
Wikipedia
Freebase was a large collaborative knowledge base consisting of data composed mainly by its community members. It was an online collection of structured data harvested from many sources, including individual, user-submitted wiki contributions. Freebase aimed to create a global resource that allowed people (and machines) to access common information more effectively. It was developed by the American software company Metaweb and ran publicly since March 2007. Metaweb was acquired by Google in a private sale announced 16 July 2010. Google's Knowledge Graph was powered in part by Freebase.
Freebase data was available for commercial and non-commercial use under a Creative Commons Attribution License, and an open API, RDF endpoint, and a database dump was provided for programmers.
On 16 December 2014, Knowledge Graph announced that it would shut down Freebase over the succeeding six months and help with the move of the data from Freebase to Wikidata.
On 16 December 2015, Google officially announced the Knowledge Graph API, which is meant to be a replacement to the Freebase API. Freebase.com was officially shut down on 2 May 2016.
Freebase was an online database service.
Freebase may also refer to:
- Free base or freebase, the pure basic form of an amine, as opposed to its salt form
- Freebase (mixtape), 2014 mixtape by 2 Chainz
Usage examples of "freebase".
Also, it was in the interests of those who knew how to convert cocaine into freebase not to spread it around too much.
By the late 1970s, head shops across the States were selling all sorts of paraphernalia for making, and taking, freebase, from special pipes in which to smoke it to extraction kits that came complete with instructions and all the correct solvents.
Phoebe, inhaling freebase deeply, then exhaling, and trying desperately to lick the smoke as it wafted away.
Because freebase users ended up ingesting vast quantities of the drug, he concluded that the habit was considerably more dangerous than snorting.
Byck suggested banning the sale of freebase paraphernalia, a broad range of public drug education policies and a lot of scientific investigation into the freebase phenomenon.
June 1980 Pryor was just winding up a freebase binge at his home in Northridge, California, when things went wrong.
Unfortunately he had been smoking freebase for five days and was not entirely up to speed: he spilled it down his front.
This kind of publicity should have discouraged the use of freebase in theUnited States.
In fact making cocaine freebase was so simple that any number of chemicals could be used, the only key element being that you mix your coke with an alkali strong enough to leach off the hydrochloride.
Making freebase with baking soda was so easy that even a child could do it.
The recipes may have varied somewhat but the idea was the same: this was the old freebase technique in a new, easy-to-use incarnation.
Siegel that I was interested in tracing the freebase habit back as far as I could go and that 1 had been interested to read the account of its origins in his 1982 article.
The key difference between crack and freebase was that crack became rapidly available at a price cheap enough to ensure that people who could not otherwise have afforded cocaine could have a go.
Initially Ross had made freebase in small medicine vials, one gram at a time.
Dealers stopped on the street would turn out to be empty-handed: it was easy to drop a couple of rocks of freebase when you saw the police arriving, and it was virtually indistinguishable from bits of stone on the road.