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eckers

English translation: ecstasy

22:51 Mar 9, 2008
English language (monolingual) [PRO]
Art/Literary - Slang
English term or phrase: eckers
-Look after yerself. Don't do too many drugs.
-Nor you. Yer only fifteen years old, sis.
-Sixteen in a couple of months. An I'd like a Smarties tube full of eckers for me birthday.

Liverpoodlian slang I guess. Could it be ecstasy? Thanks for helping me out on this one!
Bogdan Honciuc
Romania
Local time: 05:28
Selected answer:ecstasy
Explanation:
I think

http://www.bluelight.ru/vb/showthread.php?t=218537

http://scalljah.blogspot.com/2005/08/slang-babs-and-limp-dic...
Selected response from:

Mark Nathan
France
Local time: 04:28
Grading comment
Thank you, everyone!
4 KudoZ points were awarded for this answer



SUMMARY OF ALL EXPLANATIONS PROVIDED
3 +7ecstasy
Mark Nathan


Discussion entries: 2





  

Answers


7 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 3/5Answerer confidence 3/5 peer agreement (net): +7
ecstasy


Explanation:
I think

http://www.bluelight.ru/vb/showthread.php?t=218537

http://scalljah.blogspot.com/2005/08/slang-babs-and-limp-dic...

Mark Nathan
France
Local time: 04:28
Native speaker of: Native in EnglishEnglish
PRO pts in category: 8
Grading comment
Thank you, everyone!

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  Lucy Phillips: would definitely read it as that, even without hearing it before.
11 mins
agree  Will Matter: Native speaker instinct and context says you're very likely right.
16 mins
agree  kmtext
9 hrs
agree  PB Trans: Your second link does seem to suggest that it is drugs but your first link shows eckers in the context of the slang expression "it's nothing like".
10 hrs
  -> Yes, on a second look you are right about the first link - I initially read it as an "eckers like world" - a world where everyone was all luvvy duvvy on ecstasy.
agree  Vicky Nash
11 hrs
agree  Phong Le
11 hrs
agree  V_Nedkov
16 hrs
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