Entry · catalog no. 2848
drank
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noun · south · 2026
✓ Verified
1.
Codeine-promethazine cough syrup cut into soda — the Houston drink. Also, plainly, a drink.
“Styrofoam cup, two pours of drank, and the tape slowed all the way down.”
Origin & Attribution
Houston, 1990s, from the Southern pronunciation of drink. Black Houston blues musicians were mixing cough medicine into beer and wine as early as the 1960s; by the 1990s the recipe had shifted to codeine syrup and DJ Screw made it inseparable from the chopped-and-screwed sound he built. Three 6 Mafia and UGK's "Sippin' on Some Syrup" carried it national in 2000. The word names a drug that has killed people from this scene, including Screw himself in 2000 — the archive records the term, not a recommendation.
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$DRANKThe Record · cultural traction
▲ Rising0 yrs
ahead of the mainstream
12/100
peak cultural energy
Introduced to English by the culture — logged here before the mainstream caught on.
Cultural usage — the recordMainstream search interest
First used
2026
in the culture
Recorded here
2026
point of first record
Cultural energy indexed from documented usage, search interest, and citation frequency. The recorded date is the archive’s permanent point of record.
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Citations & Sources
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DJ Screw — Screwtapes, Houston — mixtape series · 1990s
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+ Cite a sourceThree 6 Mafia feat. UGK — "Sippin' on Some Syrup" — song · 2000
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