According to Albert Goldman's biography on Lenny Bruce, it's the needle (or the whole device) that you use to push heroin into your blood.
(The book was originally written in the seventies and probably uses words in a not really wide-spread understanding.)
"...murmured old junkie devil Joe as he slipped the geezer into Lenny's tattooed left arm." (p. 141)
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