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1. Acapulco, n. View full entry 1965
...In full Acapulco gold. A variety of marijuana grown in the Acapulco region (see quot. 1965)....
2. bad, adj., n.2, and adv. View full entry 1203
...Of poor quality or little worth....
3. bifter, n. View full entry 1989
...A cigarette; (sometimes) spec. (esp. outside Liverpool) a marijuana cigarette....
4. big, adj. and adv. View full entry c1300
...Of a person or animal: strong, sturdy, mighty; stout-hearted, courageous. Cf. rich1. Obs....
5. bogart, v. View full entry 1966
...trans.U.S. (esp. in African-American usage). To force, coerce; to bully, intimidate....
6. boo, n.2 View full entry 1959
...= marijuana...
7. bump, n.1 View full entry 1599
...A blow somewhat heavy, but rather dull in sound; a sudden collision, more or less violent. So with a bump (fig.), abruptly, with a shock....
8. Charley | Charlie, n. View full entry 1819
...The name formerly given to a night-watchman....
9. doobie, n. View full entry 1967
...A marijuana cigarette; (also) marijuana....
10. Dover's powder, n. View full entry 1801
...A preparation of opium and ipecacuanha (pulvis Doveri) used as an anodyne diaphoretic, etc....
11. gee, n.6 View full entry 1936
...Opium or some similar drug. Also attrib....
12. girl, n. View full entry c1300
...Chiefly in pl. A child of either sex; a young person. Now Irish English (Wexford)....
13. hep, adj. View full entry 1908
...Well-informed, knowledgeable, ‘wise to’, up-to-date; smart, stylish. Hence as , the state of being ‘hep’. Also as , to pep up; hepped Cf. ...
14. jazz, n. and adj. View full entry 1912
...U.S.slang. Energy, excitement, ‘pep’; restlessness; animation, excitability. Now rare....
15. jive, n. View full entry 1928
...Talk or conversation; spec. talk that is misleading, untrue, empty, or pretentious; hence, anything false, worthless, or unpleasant; vaguely, ‘stuff’; = jazz2a....
16. Jones, n. View full entry 1879
...Used esp. in the plural to designate one's neighbours or social equals, as in phrase to keep up with the Joneses: see to keep up10keep1;...
17. junk, n.2 View full entry 1485
...Naut. An old or inferior cable or rope; usually old junk. Obs....
18. lobby-gow, n. View full entry 1906
...An errand-boy, messenger; a hanger-on, underling, esp. in an opium den or in the Chinese quarter of a town....
19. majat, n. View full entry 1956
...Marijuana; esp. that of an inferior grade....
20. Marquis, n.2 View full entry 1946
...attrib. Designating or associated with a method of detecting opium alkaloids from the formation of a purple colour on the addition of sulphuric acid and formalin. Esp. in Marquis' test...
