crack baby

English

Etymology

From crack (“cocaine”) + baby.

Noun

crack baby (plural crack babies)

  1. (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.

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