reefer
pronunciation
How to pronounce reefer in British English:
UK [ˈri:fə(r)]
How to pronounce reefer in American English:
US [ˈrifɚ]
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- Noun:
- marijuana leaves rolled into a cigarette for smoking
Word Origin
- reefer (n.)
- "marijuana cigarette," 1920s, perhaps an alteration of Mexican Spanish grifo "marijuana, drug addict" [OED]; or perhaps from reef (v.), on resemblance to a rolled sail. It also meant "pickpocket" in criminal slang (1935). Reefer also was a nickname for the sailing navy's equivalent to a midshipman (1818) "because they attend in the tops during the operation of reefing" [Century Dictionary], which is the source of the meaning "coat of a nautical cut" (1878) worn by sailors and fishermen "but copied for general use in the fashions of 1888-90" [CD].
Example
- 1. The reefer containers should becoming stacked where there are power sockets .
- 2. I need to feel some reefer madness .
- 3. Strangely , this lackadaisical approach is not encouraging people to take up the reefer habit .
- 4. Please inform duty officer to take off the electric sockets for all reefer containers .
- 5. How 's the reefer treating you ?