kif

/ kiːf, kɪf /

noun

1. another name for marijuana

2. any drug or agent that when smoked is capable of producing a euphoric condition

3. the euphoric condition produced by smoking marijuana

Word History and Origins

Origin of kif¹

C20: from Arabic kayf pleasure

Example Sentences

The instrumental septet toasts the savory new album “Filter System” with a Black Friday release show at the Croc with openers Electric Kif.

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NGOs Nassawiyat and Kif Kif are also supporting men who have been outed.

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The earliest works here are a series of bright, radiating and psychedelic watercolors from the early 1970s that depicts objects like a teakettle and kif pipe.

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What followed, Kif thinks in that Manhattan bar, was our world, “a world where something had ended and something else, something unimaginable, was beginning, against which we were powerless to act, but could only observe, waiting to wake up and scream, never knowing that we were in fact being condemned to a waking nightmare that never ended, a world where not one heart knew how to touch another.”

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In this fictional version of the story, Flanagan gives us Kif Kehlmann, a fledgling writer living hand-to-mouth with his pregnant wife and their daughter in Tasmania.

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Related Words

• bhang 
• cannabis 
• fiber 
• flax 
• hashish 
• jute 
• marijuana