bath salts
- noun
- /bæθ sɔlts/
- NSFW
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sales de baño
- So that's what we didn't think bath salts and especially in Ohio, that's where that one dude like trapped the girls in his basement for like years.
But both of the spice and bath salts, that's really the same era, I think, of the synthetic drug craze.
- But both of the spice and bath salts, that's really the same era, I think, of the synthetic drug craze.
Examples
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Law enforcement has reported an increase in emergency calls related to the use of bath salts due to their dangerous effects.
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But both of the spice and bath salts, that's really the same era, I think, of the synthetic drug craze.
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They they can't see and on bath salts, they are dangerous.
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It was said that the person was on bath salts and bath salts caused such extreme effects that you get this kind of behavior.
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Users often experience severe side effects when they misuse bath salts, including paranoia and hallucinations.
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Many people are unaware that bath salts are not a safe alternative to traditional stimulants and can be highly addictive.
Synonyms
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A substance people take for pleasure, not medicine
How Dangerous
Surface Forms
Morphology
A B1 learner knowing 'bath' and 'salt' would naturally interpret 'bath salts' as salts used for bathing (e.g., Epsom salts), because the compound is compositionally transparent in its literal sense. The drug meaning is a specialized, euphemistic/slang usage that cannot be predicted from the constituents and requires specific cultural/lexical knowledge, so the expression is opaque for such learners.
Etymology
One popular story says the name bath salts came from sellers who put powerful illegal chemicals into small packets and labeled them 'bath salts' to hide them from the law. Because of that trick, the term came to mean those dangerous drugs.