pot n.5
(drugs) marijuana, occas. hashish; also attrib.
![[US]](/static/img/flags/us.png "United States") | ‘Pork Chop Paradise’ Coll. Stories (1990) 266: She made him smoke pot and when he got jagged [...] she put him out on the street. | |
| (con. 1948) Flee the Angry Strangers 33: Pod, Doncher; don’t say pot [...] It’s the intellectuals from college and all who come on that way. | |
| Scene (1996) 60: Pot is marijuana. | |
![[UK]](/static/img/flags/uk.png "United Kingdom") | 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!’. | |
![[Aus]](/static/img/flags/aus.png "Australia") | Flat 4 King’s Cross (1966) 102: ‘Pot?’ I asked. ‘Tea. Marijuana. Hashish’. | |
| Sir, You Bastard 35: More as one expected a pot-smoking nymphomaniac to look. | |
| (con. 1940s) Tattoo (1977) 224: Dumbass had a sack of pot – whole fuckin gunnysack full – tryin to cure it in Avis’ old lady’s garage and it caught fire! | |
| (con. 1959) Up the Cross 93: ‘Hemp. Grass. Tea. Mary Jane. Pot. Marijuana, Call it what you like’. | |
| Secrets of Harry Bright (1986) 37: They were a pair of drifters [...] who usually made their living growing pot in Oregon. | |
| Pulp Fiction [film script] 78: You were lookin’ in the mirror and you wish you had some pot? | |
| Guardian Rev. 18 June 13: Can’t even handle pot anymore. | |
| Indep. on Sun. Real Life 30 Jan. 3: Jack Straw [...] marched his son off to the police station for smoking pot. | |
| ‘Boner McPharlin’s Moll’ in Turning (2005) 284: The ropey smell of pot in the air. | |
![[SA]](/static/img/flags/sa.png "South Africa") | Sowetan (Johannesburg) 24 June 🌐 By the age of 13 he was skipping school to get drunk and smoke pot. | |
| Whiplash River [ebook] [P]eople get busted down here on a little old pot charge. | |
| Times 20 Aug. 34/3: America’s pioneering experiment with legalised pot. | |
| Old Scores [ebook] Swann had watched Corvo grow up [...] before graduating to running his own gang of teenage kids dealing pot and rebirthing stolen cars. | |
| Didn’t Nobody Give a Shit 113: Oh, shit, he was Doodle's pot dealer going way the hell back! |
In compounds
see separate entry.
(drugs) a drink derived from brewing marijuana leaves and stalks.
| Time 7 July 21/1: Central to the drug scene is marijuana [...] it is ubiquitous and easily grown, can be smoked in ‘joints’ (cigarettes), baked in cookies or brewed in tea (‘pot likker’). | |
| Drugs from A to Z (1970) 212: potlikker A tea brewed from marijuana waste, i.e., seeds and stems, which users say gives them a satisfactory high. | |
| ONDCP Street Terms 17: Potlikker — Marijuana. |
one who smokes more than their share of a cannabis cigarette.
| Sheepshagger 131: Didn’t leave much on that Ianto, aye? Fuckin potpig yew. |
(US drugs) .
| No Lights, No Sirens 5: Overcrowded and unkempt four-story apartment buildings, liquor stores, and ‘pot spots’ are on every corner. |
a marijuana cigarette.
| Last Toke 212: He reached in his pocket, brought out another fat pot stick. |
In phrases
(drugs) to smoke marijuana.
| Current Sl. IV:2. |