angel dust

noun

slang

: an illicit substance used as a psychedelic drug to induce vivid mental imagery : phencyclidine

Examples of angel dust in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

Hernandez reportedly was using the powerful hallucinogenic PCP (known as angel dust) and carrying a gun everywhere. — Encyclopedia Britannica, 6 Mar. 2026

But there were some terrible drugs, angel dust, all that stuff. — Brian Hiatt, Rolling Stone, 28 Feb. 2025

Ketamine was the more practical stepchild of a more potent and longer acting drug that was developed in the 1950s, called phencyclidine or angel dust. — Steven Strogatz, Quanta Magazine, 23 May 2024

The history of ketamine Ketamine was first synthesized in 1962 by American scientist Calvin Stevens, who was searching for an anesthetic alternative to phencyclidine, also called PCP or angel dust. — Laura Newberrystaff Writer, Los Angeles Times, 28 Feb. 2023

On August 27, the Nova Scotia Department of Health sent producer Jon Landau a letter stating that its inspection confirmed the lobster chowder contained PCP, a hallucinogen also known as angel dust. — Matthew Jacobs, Vulture, 19 Dec. 2022

Prosecutors allege that Lewis and an associate, who were both involved in the drug trade, were driving around South Boston in July 1984 searching for another drug dealer suspected of telling Bulger that Lewis’s associate was selling angel dust. — Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com, 27 May 2022

There’s his not-unrelated falling in with the hardened criminal elements of his Connecticut hometown, and his increasing dependence on drugs from marijuana to painkillers to angel dust. — Angie Han, The Hollywood Reporter, 3 Sep. 2019

Word History

First Known Use

1969, in the meaning defined above

Rhymes for angel dust

• antitrust
• overthrust
• readjust
• unitrust
• wanderlust
• adjust
• combust
• discussed
• disgust
• distrust
• entrust
• intrust

Medical Definition

angel dust

noun

ˈān-jəl-ˌdəst 

: phencyclidine