cush

comparative more cush · superlative most cush

1. GeordieslangExcellent, very good.

   That car owwer there is propa cush!

1. Cushy.

   2015, Edward John Barrington Douglas-Scott-Montagu Baron Montagu of Beaulieu, Jaguar, Chris Hedlund A very cush deal in which Pablo would do a small amount of time in a prison his own people designed and built. Then he would go free. The resort-like prison was so luxurious it had the DEA fuming.

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   Sherrington recalled that Bush's office in the old ballpark was "not very cush" and not what you would expect for the owner of a major league franchise.

   2006, James E. Mueller, Towel Snapping the Press: Bush's Journey from Locker-room Antics to Message Control, Rowman & Littlefield, →ISBN, page 109

   “The Dimonds have adjoining suites. It's all very cush.” “Who died and made you manager?” Courtney asked. “I told you, we bellhops run the place. We know where all the skeletons are buried.” Courtney quipped, “From what I've heard of that hotel, that's no figure of speech.”

   2009, D.J. MacHale, Pendragon: Raven Rise, Simon and Schuster, →ISBN

   Adirondack Trailways donated bus tickets, realtors wrote checks, local farmers gave seasonal produce for catered meals. Adopted by multiracial parents, Quinn attended a “very cush” Catholic boarding school in California, […]

   2010, Nina Shengold, River of Words: Portraits of Hudson Valley Writers, SUNY Press, →ISBN, page 173

   Mia grinned. “Lyndon got rooms for them at The Wauwinet, which is very cush. I stayed there last night.” She whispered to Jade and J.P., “Rumor has it you two spent a night there a while back.”

   2018, Janna King, The Seasonaires: A Novel, Simon and Schuster, →ISBN

plural cushes

1. colloquialball gamesThe cushion, the soft lip around the edge of the table that allows the balls to bounce cleanly.

plural cushes

1. Synonym of cuisse (“armor for the thigh”).

   One black field armour unfinished compleate One other field armour unfinished, wanting only a pair of cushes

   1963, Oliver Frederick Gillilan Hogg, The Royal Arsenal: Its Background, Origin, and Subsequent History

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   "[…]a breast and placket, taces, gorget, a burgonet with a buffe or chin peece," and also "Armour richly quilt and graven consisting of a backe, breast, cushes, a paire of kneecops, gorget, a pair of short taces, one burgonet […]"

   1880, “The” Archaeological Journal, page 488

   […] quissers or cushes covered with cloth of camaca, for the protection of legs and thighs (I. 649); and lastly, a bequest of a targett or shield (II. 657), and of a bokeler covered with plates of silver ...

   1890, London (England). Court of Husting, Calendar of Wills Proved and Enrolled in the Court of Husting, London, A.D. 1258-A.D. 1688: A.D. 1358-1688

   Synonyms: cuisse

1. alternativeuncountableAlternative spelling of kush (“marijuana”).

   You got those cigarettes and cush / You don't ever let me down

   2017, “Cigarettes & Cush”, performed by Stormzy ft. Lily Allen and Kehlani

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   “Got caught smoking cush and making out with Franklin Johnson in the memorial garden.” Ugh. This girl has no class. “Did law enforcement press charges?” Lettie asked, concern seeping into her voice. Leave it to Lettie to actually care.

   2012, Ella Monroe, Secrets and Lies: A Capital Girls Novel, St. Martin's Griffin, →ISBN, page 39

   […] there's more life than ice and smoking cush because Christ paid the price for us all so Salvation is available; for there is nothing in the streets that's capable of saving you; death, snitching and prison are your only options[…]

   2017, John H. Anderson III, My Road to Salvation: From Harlem to Heaven, AuthorHouse, →ISBN

   […] smoked crack in a glass pipe or choose to down play it and mix it with some tobacco in a cigarette or some cush[…]

   2018, Ali Taylor, The Chronicles of WaterWorld After the Hough Riots, Dorrance Publishing, →ISBN, page 85

   Smoking them up and getting high off the few blunts, it was nothing like when they smoked the purple cush,[…]

   2020, Clifford Lee, When Blood Flows, Page Publishing Inc, →ISBN

alternative Kush

1. biblicalThe son of Ham, grandson of Noah, and supposed progenitor of the African peoples.
2. biblicalA Benjamite mentioned only in the title of Psalm 7.
3. An Iron Age kingdom on the middle Nile, in what is now northern Sudan.

alternative Kush

1. alternativeuncountableAlternative form of kush (“marijuana”).

   He loved smoking joints and couldn't handle blunts. […] I also had him backstage smoking Cush with Jeezy and Will.

   2013, Chauncey "Chino Dolla" Stevens, Antoine "Don Twan" Robinson, A Hustler's Dream I: Grinding in Atlanta's Hip Hop Underworld, MasterMind Publishing, Inc., →ISBN, page 239

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   I couldn't work with my hands anymore. To make money I started selling Cush, which was considered to be fake weed. It stopped the pain in my hands. I was addicted to the fake crap. I was smoking more ...

   2020, Samuel Van Ness IV, A Stranger Within (HC), Dorrance Publishing, →ISBN, page 289

   It was June of 2015; we were just smoking Cush with my friends as usual when suddenly something hit me hard on the right ... I thought it was nothings serious, I got up and tried to smoke a gain, but this time it switches up my chest ...

   2021, Okuon Cham, From Hell to Haven; Darkness to Light; Negativity to Positivity; and from Cradle to Salvation, Life Journey, Xlibris Corporation, →ISBN