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Special K
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English
Etymology
Initial of Kellogg Company. The drug was nicknamed humorously after the cereal because its name begins with the letter k, as also with the slang sense of en vitamin K Q243547.
Pronunciation
en En-au-Special K.ogg AU
Proper noun
Special K
A breakfast cereal made primarily from rice and wheat.
He seemed better this morning; he had eaten two donuts and a bowl of Special K for breakfast.
Noun
Special K -
en Q243547 en slang Ketamine, used as a hallucinogen.
en 1995 Kids (film) Kids Fidget w:Harmony Korine Yeah, it's called the euphoric blockbuster and it's supposed to make Special K look weak.
en 2008 October Paul Scott Was the Prozac revolution all in our heads? w:Men's Health 23 8 1054-4836 VMgDAAAAMBAJ 149 Special K Ketamine, a powerful anesthetic that acts on an entirely different neurotransmitter system (and which has been ingested in rave clubs as Special K) was recently the subject of a glowing study by the National Institute of Mental Health.
en 2013 w:Chuck Palahniuk Doomed (novel) Doomed 58 https://archive.org/details/doomed0000pala_c7o6/page/58/mode/1up The soul leaves the sedated body and is free to travel, according to the not-exact testimony of numerous drugged-out Special K abusers.
May 8, 2018 Moises Velasquez-Manoff https://www.wired.com/story/ketamine-stirs-up-hope-controversy-as-a-depression-drug Ketamine Stirs Up Hope—and Controversy—as a Depression Drug on Recreational users call it "special K," and the euphoric, hallucinatory experience it induces the "K-hole." https://web.archive.org/web/20260925132811/https://www.wired.com/story/ketamine-stirs-up-hope-controversy-as-a-depression-drug/ 25 September 2026
Further reading
Special K (disambiguation)
en Recreational drugs