What is "special k"

n. street names for ketamine [syn: K, jet, super acid, honey oil, green, cat valium, super C]

Special K is a lightly toasted breakfast cereal manufactured by the Kellogg Company. The cereal was introduced to the United States in 1955. It is made primarily from rice and wheat. Special K is marketed primarily as a low-fat cereal that can be eaten to help one lose weight. The cereal frequently has give-away offers for various health and fitness products or contains dieting information on the back of the box. It is also generally targeted at adults, rather than children.

Special K may refer to:

• Special K, a breakfast cereal manufactured by Kellogg Company
• Special K (rapper), a rapper and original member of the Treacherous Three
• "Special K" (song), a song by the rock band Placebo
• Special K (professional wrestling), a former pro wrestling stable in Ring of Honor
• Special K, a nickname for the drug ketamine
• a nickname of NASCAR driver Alan Kulwicki
• a nickname for the NFL running back Knowshon Moreno
• a nickname of Harlem Globetrotter Kevin Daley
• a nickname of Detroit Piston announcer Greg Kelser
• a nickname for rugby league footballer Karmichael Hunt
• Special K Line, a nickname for NHL players Paul Kariya, Chad Kilger, and Todd Krieger of the Mighty Ducks of Anaheim
• Special K, the last airworthy Douglas A-26A Invader owned and being restored by the Pacific Prowler organization in Fort Worth, Texas.
• Special K: The Wisdom of Terry Kay, a 2000 book by Terry Kay

Special K was a heel professional wrestling stable in Ring of Honor. They were billed as "rich kid ravers" from Webster Hall, New York City who had everything handed to them by their rich families. They had a spotfest style, performing many high flying and high risk moves with no regards to their own bodies. The name is an allusion to the drug ketamine.

As part of this gimmick many Special K members were said to have bright futures ahead of them, but they wasted all of their parents' money on drugs rather than education. During shows, Special K held raves inside the arenas, and members were often seen drinking clear liquid from water bottles as well as cough syrup and cold medicine. Special K seemingly had no respect for anything, especially ROH's Code of Honor, and usually appeared buzzed during their matches.

When ROH produced joint shows with Jersey All Pro Wrestling, members of the group who also competed for JAPW (Izzy, Angledust, Elax, Lit, Yeyo) wrestled under the Special K gimmick but would use their regular JAPW ring names.

"Special K" is a single by British alternative rock band Placebo, released on 19 March 2001 on CD and 12" vinyl, taken from their third album, Black Market Music. The title is slang for Ketamine, and the song itself is supposed to explore "the link between drugs and love," and ""Special K" is uppers and the rush of falling in love."

Kevin Keaton, a.k.a. Special K, was an American old-school MC prominent in the late 1970s, throughout the 1980s and early 1990s.