reefer n.1
1. a marijuana cigarette.
![[US]](/static/img/flags/us.png "United States") | ‘Gimme a Pigfoot’ 🎵 Gimme a reefer and a gang of gin. | |
| Prison Nurse (1964) 96: I hear you’re pushing reefers at two bits the pack. How in hell do you expect my boys to get thirty-five cents for marihuana if your lugs cut the price. | |
| Farewell, My Lovely (1949) 203: Hell, I thought he sold reefers [...] With the right protection behind him. But hell, that’s a small-time racket. A peanut grift. | |
![[UK]](/static/img/flags/uk.png "United Kingdom") | Indiscreet Guide to Soho 120: ‘Reefers’ (cigarettes made from marihuana) used to sell in thousands in the West End before the war. | |
| Really the Blues 181: It was like waiting for the accentuated beat of your heart when you’re on a reefer jag. | |
| No Hiding Place! 191/2: Reefers. Marihuana (Mexican hemp) cigarettes. | |
| Mad mag. Apr.–May 16: Rackstraw took me to sell cigarettes to the schoolchildren ... Strange cigarettes called reefers! | |
| Monkey On My Back (1954) 21: From Houston, Texas, came a report of the arrest of five teen-agers who had been selling ‘thousands of reefers’ to high school students. | |
![[Aus]](/static/img/flags/aus.png "Australia") | One Day of the Year II iii: mum: What are y’doin’ in there? hughie: Smoking a reefer [...] Having a drag. Marijuana. | |
| Baron’s Court All Change (2011) 31: ‘Pot — Shit — Tea — Gunja — Tampi — Reefers — Weed — or if you want me to be really square — Indian Hemp!’. | |
![[SA]](/static/img/flags/sa.png "South Africa") | Crime in S. Afr. 101: Two young girls [...] smoking cigarettes which might have been ‘reefers’. | |
| Address: Kings Cross 32: ‘There’s a place a couple of streets away where they hold marihuana parties,’ Greg said. ‘Everyone sits around on beds and smokes reefers’. | |
| Street Players 8: The glass-topped coffee table where Charles was busy twisting reefers. | |
| Fixx 205: He was pulling on a king-sized reefer. | |
| Muzukuru 4: The guard was busy rolling himself a reef. | |
![[Scot]](/static/img/flags/sco.png "Scotland") | Filth 168: Skinning up a large reefer of skunk. | |
| (con. late 1950s) Amaze Your Friends (2019) 10: Leaving me and Chet with the pile of reefers. | |
| Guardian Guide 22–28 Jan. 83: Patrick McGoohan plays a reefer-smoking Iago, a jazz drummer. | |
![[NZ]](/static/img/flags/nz.png "New Zealand") | Boobslang [U. Canterbury D.Phil. thesis] 152/2: reefer n. a marijuana cigarette. | |
| Rough Trade [ebook] ‘[W]hy don’t you go check the restrooms and make sure that nobody’s smoking a reefer’. | |
| Silver [ebook] Smoking reefers in Bali. | |
| Widespread Panic 17: I planted two reefers in his sax case and buzzed the fuzz. |
2. marijuana.
| ‘Reefer Man’ 🎵 ‘Man, what’s the matter with that cat there?’ ‘Must be full of reefer.’ [...] ‘You mean that cat’s high?’ ‘Sailing’. | |
| ‘Reefer Head Woman’ 🎵 She musta have smoked that reefer and it’s bound to carry her down. | |
| 1 May [synd. col.] A little reefer, now and then, if taken after work when one has his shoes off [...] is a man’s own business. | |
| USA Confidential 26: [They] said there was no reefer-smoking in its schools. | |
| Scene (1996) 70: Nothing had ever affected him like that, not reefer, whiskey, or anything. | |
| Black Players 140: They come to school drunk or fucked-up on reefer and pills. | |
| Life and Times of Little Richard 192: Some people call it pot, some people call it reefer. | |
| Homeboy 104: Its floor was thick with crushed pills and shredded reefer. | |
| (con. late 1950s) Amaze Your Friends (2019) 16: Full of dexes, Remy and reefer. | |
| Observer 15 Aug. 15: The myth of ‘reefer madness’ arises from murder trials in the United States in the 1940s in which lawyers used a ‘not guilty because of marijuana insanity’ defence. | |
| Midnight Lightning 82: They had no references on what to expect or know what reefer was. | |
| Deuce’s Wild 46: ‘Reefer? Coke?’ I waved him off. ‘No thanks.’. | |
| Apples (2023) 9: I was pissed off the Reef and those shots. | |
| ‘Six Feet Under God’ in Life During Wartime (2018) 191: ‘You should be quoting Hamlet, not smoking reefer’. | |
| (con. 1962) Enchanters 61: The stale reefer smoke made me sneeze. |
3. attrib. use of sense 2.
 | Afro-American (Baltimore, MD) 10 Sept. 10/7: Musicians say that the kids frequently invite them to a ‘tea’ party [...] They say the reefer habit stemmed from Harlem. | |
| Farm (1968) 198: ‘They give us reefer chocolate bars to eat.’ [...] He grinned in a happyfoolish reefer way. | |
| ‘Tommy, Who Loved to laugh’ in ThugLit Sept. [ebook] Reefer smoke and the deep dark; stargazing on the porch. |
4. someone who smokes marijuana.
| ‘Smokers’ Sl.’ in AS XV:3 Oct. 335/2: One who smokes is [...] a reefer (especially a smoker of marihuana). | |
| World’s Toughest Prison 815: reefer – A marijuana smoker. |
In derivatives
(US drugs) intoxicated by marijuana.
| When Shadows Fall 128: A strange, uninhibited sensation crept into his reefered brain. | |
| Chili 50: Reefered to the jibbs. |
In compounds
(US drugs) a smoker of marijuana.
| [song title] Reefer Head Woman. | |
| Strip Tease 31: ‘There’s a lot of reefer fiends’ [...] ‘That’s marijuana cigarettes’. | |
| S.R.O. (1998) 142: This was a fairly decent hotel [...] Not a single junky. Only a few reefer heads’. |
1. (US drugs) a smoker of cannabis.
| ‘Reefer Man’ [song title] Man is that the reefer man? / That’s the reefer man. / I believe he’s losin’ his mind. | |
| in Pittsburgh Courier (PA) 17 Sept. 11/1: A reefer man or a man whose technique comes out of a bottle couldn’t last two minutes with one of our first-rate swing bands. |
2. (drugs) a marijuana seller.
| [song title] Reefer Man. | |
| His Hi De Highness of Ho De Ho 36: A ‘reefer man’ is a peddler who bootlegs these cigarets. | |
| Weed (1998) 140: He was [...] the only reefer man in Westphalia. | |
| ‘Yet Princes Follow’ in Black! (1996) 195: Go over and see Carl-O the reefer man, and get about half a dozen joints. |
(drugs) a house, apartment or room where cannabis users can gather to smoke.
| Decade 317: The John Laws are knocking over cathouses, clip-joints, black-and-tan parlours, reefer flats. | |
| (con. early 1930s) Harlem Glory (1990) 43: They were far removed from the [...] tea-hounds of the reefer joints. | |
| Weed (1998) 221: Do you think I got that hangin out in some reefer pad all night? | |
| World’s Toughest Prison 815: reefer den – A resort where marijuana furnishes the stimulation. | |
| (con. 1930s) Addicts Who Survived 132: When I was a kid, we used to go to a reefer pad and buy it and smoke it in the pad. |
(US black/drugs) a marijuana smoker.
| (con. early 1930s) Harlem Glory (1990) 42: The reefer rats, those Harlem snakes! | |
| ‘Case of the Honest Thieves’ in Famous Detective Story 🌐 It looked like a jungle for winos and reefer-rats. |
marijuana.
| ‘Jargon of Marihuana Addicts’ in AS XV:3 Oct. 336/2: The drug, itself, is known as [...] reefer weed. |
(US drugs) a marijuana smoker.
| ‘Argot of the Und. Narcotic Addict’ Pt 1 in AS XI:2 125/2: reefing man. A marajuana addict, or a twister. | |
| Narcotics Lingo and Lore. |
In phrases
to smoke marijuana.
| et al. DAUL 22/2: Bang a reefer. To smoke a cigarette of marijuana. ‘I got the leaps (nervous reaction) after that trick (crime). I’m gonna hit the camp (flat) and bang a few reefers.’. | |
| Traffic In Narcotics 303: bang a reefer. To smoke a marihuana cigarette. | |
| (con. 1940s) Reprieve 237: A reefer or muggle is blasted, banged, and blown—never smoked. |