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reefer noun- a marijuana cigarette US, 1931
Almost certainly from the Spanish word meaning “to twist”. Still used, with a nostalgic air to it. - Later they smoked the reefers in Panama, and when World War II took them to bases in Ecuador, the hop habit they brought was the answer to a medicine man’s prayers. — Time, pp. 40–41, 14 October 1946
- They’re reefers. If you’re gonna smoke y’might’s well get a kick out it. — Max Shulman, The Amboy Dukes, p. 3, 1947
- white women learned where they could get a “betl,” a “jolt,” or a “gow.” Reefer-smokers are called “gowsters.” — Jack Lait, New York Confidential, p. 119, 1948
- I lost ground so fast you’d think I was a juvenile delinquent trying her first reefer. — Philip Wylie, Opus 21, p. 287, 1949
- She ran across the rug to the dresser and searched in her purse for the reefers Lukey had given her[.] — George Mandel, Flee the Angry Strangers, p. 117, 1952
- Biff took the reefers and held out some bills. — Bernard Wolfe, The Late Risers, p. 227, 1954
- Good God! Dirty pictures in the second grade! What’s your next project–reefers? — Max Shulman, Rally Round the Flag, Boys!, p. 21, 1957
- “He promised to let me have some stuff.” “What sort of stuff? Reefers?” “No. A deck of H.” — Douglas Rutherford, The Creeping Flesh, p. 102, 1963
- Shorty talked to me out of the corner of his mouth: which hustlers–standing around, or playing at this or that table–sold “reefers,” or had just come out of prison, or were “second-story men.” — Malcolm X and Alex Haley, The Autobiography of Malcolm X, p. 45, 1964
- When I came home, Kid and Butch and Danny weren’t smoking reefers any more. — Claude Brown, Manchild in the Promised Land, p. 102, 1965
- Reefers at that time cost two for fifteen cents, or you could cop a crescent for two bits. — A.S. Jackson, Gentleman Pimp, p. 13, 1973
- They all take a drag on their reefers / And say prayers to St. Konky Mohair. — Dennis Wepman et al., The Life, p. 107, 1976
- The dried hash crumbled easily onto a Rizla cigarette paper and was mixed with tobacco to be rolled into a joint, which in those days was called a reefer. — Simon Napier-Bell, Black Vinyl White Powder, p. 3, 2001
- marijuana US, 1931
- It was like waiting for the accentuated heart beat of your heart when you’re on a reefer jag[.] — Mezz Mezzrow, Really the Blues, p. 181, 1946
- Two other developments in the street–said to be normal consequences of its jazz madness–are the presence of reefer (marijuana) addicts and homosexuals, of all races. — Jack Lait and Lee Mortimer, New York Confidential, p. 45, 1948
- We could sell them for about three or four dollars and buy a bag of reefer. We’d roll up and get high and then go do something crazy... — Claude Brown, Manchild in the Promised Land, p. 130, 1965
- I smoked reefer for five years before I even knew what heroin was. — Nathan Heard, Howard Street, p. 183, 1968
- We bought three cans of reefer for fifty dollars, and split the rest of the money. — Donald Goines, Whoreson, p. 36, 1972
- “I wasn’t a college researcher, I was a crazy street whitey,” Gravenites said. “Lotta times I carried a pistol. The South Side was my turf. I scored a lot of reefer there...” — Rolling Stone, p. 18, 15 March 1973
- It took Bobby Shy the rest of the day to locate a whole lid of Colombian reefer. — Elmore Leonard, 52 Pick-up, p. 133, 1974
- Man, someone’s tokin’ some reefer. — Dazed and Confused, 1993
- a refrigerator; a refrigerated railway wagon US, 1914
- I’d caught one of these hiball reefer trains and continued the balance of the journey by rail. — Neal Cassady, The First Third, p. 203, February 1951
- [W]e didn’t know whether they were going east or west or how to find out or what boxcars and flats and de-iced reefers to pick, and so on. — Jack Kerouac, On the Road, p. 19, 1957
- One minute you’re sleeping it off in the TV room or shootin’ craps in the reefer and the next minute you’re the sheriff of Cochise. — Darryl Ponicsan, The Last Detail, p. 21, 1970
- Cab-over Pete with a reefer on — C.W. McCall, Convoy, 1976
- This enabled the refrigerated “reefer” trucks to avoid convoy dust and allowed them more off-loading time at destination. — Shelby L. Stanton, The Rise and Fall of an American Army, p. 276, 1985
- a pickpocket US
- — Vincent J. Monteleone, Criminal Slang, p. 192, 1949
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