Green’s Dictionary of Slang

1. any drug available in a blunt-ended capsule.

1972		E. Folb Urban Black Argot 134: Blunts 1. diluted capsules of ‘Seconal’ ii. any ‘black market’ barbiturate.
1980		E. Folb Runnin’ Down Some Lines 168: Blunts are the ones they’re round at the end – they bigger than F-40s, but ain’t as strong. Look for d’ little number on bullets. Dat tells you dey uncut too.

2. (also Philly blunt) a marijuana cigarette made of buds rolled in a tobacco leaf, taken from the wrapper of a Phillies Blunt cigar; thus the cigar itself; latterly used for any marijuana-based cigarette.

1983		in J. Breslin World According to Breslin (1985) 61: ‘I smoke White Owl blunts. That’s the new thing’.
1988		Big Daddy Kane ‘R.A.W.’ 🎵 I’ll smoke ya up like a blunt.
1992		T. Williams Crackhouse 74: For a time, New York City users took to smoking ‘blunts,’ a mixture of crack-cocaine, marijuana, and tobacco. [Ibid.] 147: blunt – cigar with most of the tobacco removed, refilled with cocaine and marijuana (coke blunt) or sinsemilla, Thai, indica, or other high-grade marijuana (buda blunt).
1997		Simon & Burns Corner (1998) 54: She hates that he’s already smoking those big Philly blunts.
2002		Teen Lingo: The Source for Youth Ministry 🌐 blunt n. usually a cigar filled with Marijuana. Sometimes just a large ‘joint.’ ‘Let’s go smoke a blunt!’.
2006		G. Pelecanos Night Gardener 59: A T-shirt showing [Bob] Marley smoking a blunt, right off the Catch a Fire cover.
2011		Guardian CIF 8 Aug. 🌐 I smoke a million swisher blunts bitch you ain’t no barbie.
2016		F. Stuart ‘Dispatches from the Rap Wars’ in chicagomag.com 🌐 In nearly every shot, the guys were rolling blunts, smoking, and drinking.
2018-20		T. Thorne (ed.) ‘Drill Slang Glossary’ at Forensic Linguistic Databank 🌐 Blunt - cannabis cigarette.
2020		S.A. Crosby Blacktop Wasteland 74: ‘We all straight. Don’t get high. Don’t pop no Oxy. Don’t smoke a blunt’.

3. (also b) marijuana.

1999		T. Dorsey Florida Roadkill 236: Coleman: ‘Pot, grass, weed, dope, hemp, rope, thing, shit, gage, spliff, doobie, joint, number, ganga, blunt, . . .’.
2000		Ebonics Primer at www.dolemite.com 🌐 fat b Definition: a fat blunt Example: Dat boy messed up, he must be smokin some fat b.