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tea
noun- marijuana US, 1935
- Muta was what we called marijuana. We had other names for the weed too: gauge, grefa, reefers, golden-leaf, muggles, tea. — True, p. 26, 1946
- Some guys were so hopped on on tea they were rocking on their heels. — Irving Shulman, The Amboy Dukes, p. 52, 1947
- It has since become known as locoweed and in Harlem it is commonly called “tea.” — Jack Lait and Lee Mortimer, New York Confidential, p. 102, 1948
- “You’ve been selling marijuana to my kid,” he said. Flute showed no emotion. “Who’s your kid?” he said calmly. “I sell tea to a lot of people.” — Atlantic Monthly, p. 69, August 1948
- “For a Pachuco, there’s only one kind of high, Bogaway.” “Tea?” “Tea. Grifa. Yesca. Marijuana. Whatever you want to call it.” — Thurston Scott, Cure it with Honey, p. 4, 1951
- At one time or another I have winked at marijuana (and don’t call it tea or reefers or grass or weed or by any other romantic euphemism); I have never been other than disgusted by heroin and its users. — Metronone, p. 34, September 1951
- But listen, you get Verger and his tea, and I’ll see if I can round up Stofsky somewhere. — John Clellon Holmes, Go, p. 83, 1952
- “What about tea?” “That’s different. Boom makes you gay. You take a couple of sticks and you’re way up there, looking down.” — Wenzell Brown, Monkey on My Back, p. 76, 1953
- I have seen people like that. For them, tea occupies the place usually filled by liquor. — William Burroughs, Junkie, p. 79, 1953
- Somebody is pushing horse and tea again. — John D. McDonald, The Neon Jungle, p. 32, 1953
- The long, thin sticks of “tea” went from hand to hand. — Robert Sylvester, No Cover Charge, p. 46, 1956
- My grandma pushes tea. — Stephen Sondheim, West Side Story, 1957
- You could smell tea, weed, I mean marijuana, floating in the air, together with the chili beans and beer. — Jack Kerouac, On the Road, p. 86, 1957
- “Any musician who says he is playing better either on tea, the needle or when he is juiced is a plain, straight liar,” said The Bird. — Jim Schock, Life is a Lousy Drag, 1958
- Once or twice a few had fallen in with pot or tea as it was called then and I picked up for the first time one morning and got so stoned I was unable to move. — Herbert Huncke, The Evening Sun Turned Crimson, pp. 28–29, 1980
- in horse racing, a drug (especially cocaine or strychnine) which will stimulate a horse US
- — David W. Maurer, Argot of the Racetrack, p. 64, 1951
▶ not for all the tea in China!
certainly not!; not at any price AUSTRALIA, 1937- [M]ost of the people on my bus or tram would often express to me that they wouldn’t do my job for all the tea in China, and often they marvel that I remain so cheerfully immune to the less desirable elements of the job. — The Guardian, 1 October 2003
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