啪paak1針zam1

English

1. to take drugs through needle injection [colloquial]
2. to inject (medications, drugs, a lethal injection, whether as a death penalty or form of euthanasia, etc.)

粵語 — Cantonese

1. 打針（包括注射藥物、毒品、執行死刑、安樂死等等）

Examples

• 有班道友喺公園集體啪針。

  There is a group of addicts shooting up in the park.

• 啪完針鎮靜劑，佢瞓到成隻豬噉。

  After being injected with a tranquiliser, he fell soundly asleep like a pig.

• 見到隻狗咁辛苦，我哋都掙扎好唔好叫醫生啪針，俾佢走得舒服啲。

  Seeing that the dog is in so much pain, we struggled whether to ask the doctor to give it a shot to allow it to pass away in peace.