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four-twenty
noun- marijuana US
Also written as “4:20”. False etymologies abound; the term was coined by teenagers in Marin County, California, and does not refer to any police code. According to an article in the New York Times on April 19, 2009, the term originated from highs school students at a high school in San Rafael, California, in 1971, when the students would gather at a statue of Louis Pasteur on campus at 4:20 pm and smoke marijuana. - With the cocaine kangarooing me, and this booby-trapped nest of low-life suckers I stumbled into I had more than a frantic yearning for maybe four-twenty at the Haven. — Iceberg Slim (Robert Beck), Pimp, p. 143, 1969
- “Four-twenty”–once an obscure Bay Area term for pot–is showing up nationally in the advertisements and business names of concert promoters, travel agencies, even high-tech companies. — Los Angeles Times, 20 April 2002
- any time that is considered the appropriate time to smoke marijuana US
Also written as “4:20”. Coinage is credited to California students in the 1970s then, via the scene surrounding the Grateful Dead into wider usage. - — Steven Wishnia, The Cannabis Companion, p. 151, 2004
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