Green’s Dictionary of Slang

1. (orig. US drugs) cannabis; thus doobious adj., intoxicated from cannabis.

1967		J.B. Williams Narcotics and Hallucinogens.
1981		D.E. Miller Bk of Jargon 337: doobie: Marijuana.
1986		Eble Campus Sl. Oct. 2: doobious – stoned from smoking marijuana.
1999		T. Dorsey Florida Roadkill 236: Coleman: ‘Pot, grass, weed, [...] doobie, joint, [...] Bogart . . .’.
1999		D. Looser ‘Boob Jargon’ in NZEJ 13 29: doobie n. Mariiuana.
2000		C. Hiaasen Sick Puppy 313: He lowered his face to the edge of the flames until the end of the doobie began to glow.
2001		D. Looser Boobslang [U. Canterbury D.Phil. thesis] 60/1: Doobie Brothers, the n. marijuana.
2001		ONDCP Street Terms 8: Doobee — Marijuana; Doobie/dubbe/duby — Marijuana [...] Doob — Marijuana. [Ibid.] Dube — Marijuana.
2002		DRUG-ARM Aus. 🌐 Slang Terms: dubbe Cannabis.
2004		P. Howard PS, I Scored the Bridesmaids 229: Hash [...] as in dope. Cannabis. Doobey. Ganja. Weed.
2013		T. Black Ringer [ebook] n.p.: I even manage to forget about the two great blocks of doobie I left behind.
2017		Times 28 Dec. 🌐 This is absolutely the look you should be going for if you are a multimillionaire diva buying some doob.

2. (drugs) a cannabis cigarette.

1971		E.E. Landy Underground Dict. (1972) 72: duby [...] Marijuana cigarette. a.k.a. duby.
1972		E. Folb Urban Black Argot 137: Dubee a marijuana cigarette.
1972		B. Rodgers Queens’ Vernacular 210: to smoke marijuana [...] do a dooby (’70).
1972		Smith & Gay Heroin in Perspective 201: Dubie. A joint.
1980		E. Folb Runnin’ Down Some Lines 171: A marijuana cigarette [...] skoofus, skroofus, or dubee.
1985		Totally True Diaries of an Eighties Roller Queen 🌐 20 Apr. I went to the dance tonight. Steve was there. We left the dance early and smoked a dube.
1988		D. Woodrell Muscle for the Wing 90: She turned up half a doobie and put fire to it.
1991		D. Gaines Teenage Wasteland 109: Snoopy smoking a doobie!
1993		J. Mowry Six Out Seven (1994) 354: He had a doob between his fingers, and looked almost peaceful.
1995		A. Heckerling Clueless [film script] It is one thing to spark up a dubie and get laced at parties, but it is quite another to be fried all day.
1999		K. Sampson Powder 109: Helmet’s inability to take a drink and his tendency to throw up after a couple of tokes on a doob.
1999		D. Looser ‘Boob Jargon’ in NZEJ 13 29: doobie n. Mariiuana (joint).
2001		D. Looser Boobslang [U. Canterbury D.Phil. thesis] 60/1: doobie n. a marijuana cigarette (see below).
2003		T. Dorsey Stingray Shuffle 47: Lenny passed a doobie back.
2006		C. Hiaasen Nature Girl 37: How come you didn’t take my money [...] or at least the doobs.
2013		T. Dorsey Riptide Ultra-Glide 139: ‘Here’s a foolproof way not to get arrested while blowing doobies’.
2019		P. Baker Fabulosa 292/1: dubes, doobs, doobies [...] 2. marijuana cigarettes.

3. (US prison) a cigarette end.

1971–2

C. Shafer ‘Catheads [...] and Cho-Cho Sticks’ in Abernethy Bounty of Texas (1990) 202: dooby, n. – a cigarette butt.