👟 A fastening cord 👊 A beating 🥃 A little alcohol 💊 Adding a drug

lacing

9.7

Secretly putting a drug into someone's drink to harm them

noun
/ˈleɪsɪŋ/

Offensive

: adulteración con drogas

So hunters began lacing bison meat with poison so they could also collect wolf pelts.

Examples

The bartender was accused of lacing the drink with a powerful sedative to rob the patron.
Investigators found evidence that someone had been lacing the food at the party with a dangerous drug.
She was horrified to learn that someone had been lacing the tea with a harmful substance all along.

Synonyms

drugging

vslacing

Offensive

4 7.7

Giving someone a drug, often without their knowledge, to make them sleepy

is done by secretly adding substances into food or drink to harm

How Dangerous

poisoning

NSFW

27 4.4

lacing

Offensive

9.7

tampering

58 5.8

to spike

NSFW

40 7.2

Surface Forms

lacing singular

lacings plural

Morphology

lacing = lace (semi-transparent) = lace + ing

This nominal sense is a straightforward nominalization of the verb 'to lace' but the malicious, covert meaning is a specialized extension.

Etymology

Lacing is also used for secretly putting a drug or other harmful thing into a drink; picture 'threading' a hidden drop into a cup, which is why such a 'lacing' is dangerous.