yage

or ya·je

[ yah-hey ]

/ ˈyɑ heɪ /

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noun

a mildly hallucinogenic drug obtained from a South American vine, Banisteriopsis caapi.

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Origin of yage

First recorded in 1920–25; from Latin American Spanish (Colombia, Equador) yagé, apparently from an Indigenous language of southeastern Colombia or northeastern Peru

Words nearby yage

yae, yaff, yaffle, Yafo, YAG, yage, Yagi aerial, Yagi antenna, yah, Yahgan, yahoo

How to use yage in a sentence

In th' old days all ye knew about a ship was that she left Liverpool and landed in New York afther a most disthressin' v'yage.
Mr. Dooley Says|Finley Dunne
If you was at the tiller you'd run into the fust port you come to, and there wouldn't be no v'yage at all.'
John Gayther's Garden and the Stories Told Therein|Frank R. Stockton
He was mate aboard the schooner when Uncle Abner died on a v'yage from Charleston home.
Thankful's Inheritance|Joseph C. Lincoln
There's a couple of hundred launched every year and not more'n ten ever make a payin' v'yage.
Thankful's Inheritance|Joseph C. Lincoln

That's the way you used to poke fun at me aboard the old Wild Ranger when we was makin' port after a good v'yage.
Fair Harbor|Joseph Crosby Lincoln