reefers

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as insports jacket
as incannabis
as incigarette

Word Origin & History

"marijuana cigarette," 1920s, perhaps an alteration of Mexican Spanish grifo "marijuana, drug addict" [OED]; or perhaps from reef (v.), on resemblance to a rolled sail. It also meant "pickpocket" in criminal slang (1935). Reefer also was a nickname for "midshipman" (1818) "because they attend in the tops during the operation of reefing" [Century Dictionary], which is the source of the meaning "coat of a nautical cut" (1878) worn by sailors and fishermen "but copied for general use in the fashions of 1888-90" [CD].

Example Sentences for reefers

In them days Max works for old man Zudosky selling boys' reefers.

He believed they would be in Omeo to-morrow evening before sundown, and were going to stay at the Reefers' Arms.

It wouldn't be a bad thing to have an Act of Parliament to give an admiral his twentieth in the reefers' foragings.

Let him take down his coat and he'll find a feather duster in the corner by them misses' ...

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Synonyms for reefers

noun grass, pot