crack baby
English
editEtymology
editFrom crack (“cocaine”) + baby.
Noun
editcrack baby (plural crack babies)
- (derogatory) A child born to a mother who uses cocaine, especially crack cocaine, or any child with substance abuse related birth defects.
- 1995 July, Katharine Greider, “Crackpot Ideas”, in Mother Jones Magazine, page 56:
- Developmental psychologist Claire Coles, who is also a clinician, has seen "crack babies" who were in fact colicky babies.
See also
editFurther reading
edit- prenatal cocaine exposure on Wikipedia.Wikipedia