budtender

[buhd-ten-der]

noun

1. Slang.,  a person who sells marijuana or marijuana products in a retail shop or medical dispensary.

Word History and Origins

Origin of budtender¹

2005–10; bud ¹ (slang for “marijuana”) + (bar)tender ( def. )

Example Sentences

And you're funneled through a labyrinth of retractable stanchions like you’re about to meet a costumed mouse at Magic Kingdom, not a budtender named Jade.

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As he finished a joint of Pure Beauty Spritzer, a budtender delivered a roll of Starburst candy and a box of water to him on a silver tray.

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The budtender unscrewed a jar to let me sniff the fresh aroma, but since rolling a joint for me is like solving a Rubix Cube, I bought a pre-rolled Thai and went on my merry way.

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They can’t display cannabis in windows, and although customers can inspect potential products, the budtender does most of the handling.

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Then I’m leaving town for the closest weed-legal state, with the singular goal of chiefing so hard the local budtender nicknames me “ISS” — because nerds with a death-wish have been trying to get inside and fix me since 1998, but I’m so complicated and high it’ll take two alphabets and a billion-dollar international consortium to make me come down safely.

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