tik
Noun
crystal meth or speed.
Usage- South-Africa
- Slang
- Uncountable
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This Tuesday Special Assignment focuses on a deepening crisis in Cape Town. Many young adults and schoolchildren as young as 10 years are in the grip of a powerful drug called crystal methamphetamine – known locally as tik. It’s been on the fringes for several years but it is now catching on fast among the youth of the Western Cape.
Over a third of all people seeking rehabilitation in the second half of 2005 reported that their primary problem was tik.
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Hardly a week goes by without news of a crime bust of some kind involving one of the buses travelling cross-country, with everything from mandrax to tik, marijuana and abalone finding its way on board.