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crack den
noun[ C ]
informaluk /ˈkræk ˌden/ us /ˈkræk ˌden/
a house or other building where crack(= a form of the illegal drug cocaine that can be smoked) is sold, bought, and used: 可卡因窝点，毒品窝点
He was eventually arrested when police found him running a crack den in Acton.他最后被逮捕了，警察发现他在阿克顿经营一个毒品窝点。
Synonym
crack house
An unarmed man has been shot and injured by police in a raid on a crack den.
As gentrification creeps in, middle-class settlers are fixing up 19th-century town houses that were once rooming houses, crack dens or mere shells.
In an attempt to stamp out gun crime police will concentrate on closing down crack dens, which are linked to the use of firearms.
Cocaine has moved from crack dens on inner-city estates to middle-class dinner parties.
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases
Drug addiction
abuser
addictiveness
anti-crack
buzzed
buzzed up
clean
crack house
druggie
glue-sniffer
glue-sniffing
go cold turkey
habit
habit-forming
hooked
hophead
intervention
junkie
pothead
smackhead
taker
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