kief

or kef

or kif

[ keef, kef, keyf ]

noun
  1. Usually kief .

    • a powdery, crystallized substance extracted from the resin glands on the flower buds of the cannabis plant: more potent than marijuana due to a high concentration of cannabinoids and terpenes.: Compare hashish (def. 2).

    • a popular name for marijuana.

  2. Usually kef . a state of drowsy contentment or trancelike calm, especially from the use of marijuana, opium, or another narcotic: In our peace-themed rooms scented with patchouli and the smoke of homegrown weed, we felt the kef and thought we were saving the world.

  • Also keef, keif [keef, kef, keyf] /kif, kɛf, keɪf/ .

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How to use kief in a sentence

  • Beyond the moving edge of devastation was a brown floor of the moving bodies of kifs.

    Happy Ending | Fredric Brown
  • The kifs, the Venusian equivalent of the Terran ant, stole his food.

    Happy Ending | Fredric Brown
  • Billions of kifs, an army of kifs, eating their way across the night.

    Happy Ending | Fredric Brown
  • He sat the legs of the cot in dishes of gasoline, but the kifs still got in.

    Happy Ending | Fredric Brown
  • The kifs would not get at it until he opened a can, but then, unless he ate it all at once, they ate whatever he left.

    Happy Ending | Fredric Brown

British Dictionary definitions for kief

kief

/ (kiːf) /


noun
  1. a variant spelling of kif

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