K-hole
nounEtymology From K (“ketamine”) + hole, from the notion that being in this state is comparable to being inside a hole, isolated or distanced from the real world.
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Slang The state of dissociation from (and lack of control over) the body commonly experiences after taking relatively high doses of the drug ketamine.
- Let's not focus on her. That'll be like entering a bad K-hole you'll never wake up from.2015 July 1, Sam Esmail, “eps1.1_ones-and-zer0es.mpeg”, in Mr. Robot, season 1, episode 2, spoken by Mr. Robot:
- Recreational users call it "special K," and the euphoric, hallucinatory experience it induces the "K-hole."2018 May 8, Moises Velasquez-Manoff, “Ketamine Stirs Up Hope—and Controversy—as a Depression Drug”, in WIRED:
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- “They're getting their drugs mixed up,” she said. “If someone did a line of coke, it would be a very different size than if someone did a bump of ketamine, right? So if they're thinking it's cocaine and they do a line, they could go into a k-hole and be completely unable to move for hours. Maybe not hours, but for a while.”2019 August 9, Joshua Azizi, “Shambhala Music Festival makes harm reduction a priority”, in The Georgia Straight: