recreational drug

1. 1.

   a narcotic drug that is used only occasionally and is claimed to be nonaddictive

   Broadernarcotic

Questions about recreational drug

What does recreational drug mean?

recreational drug means "a narcotic drug that is used only occasionally and is claimed to be nonaddictive".

Is recreational drug a common word?

recreational drug is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.