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This article focuses on the issue of drug nominations above the word level. It assumed that every jargon expression composed of two or more elements is a phraseologism. The analysis encompasses 274 phraseological expressions excerpted from the most recent lexicogra- phic sources. Among the analyzed drug nominations there were observed all kinds of expressions divided according to semantic as well as formal criteria. Moreover, phraseological phonetic, mor- phological-grammatical, word-formation and lexical variants were distinguished.