green out

plural green outs

1. alternativeAlternative form of greenout.

   Alcohol's role as a diuretic increases the risk for dehydration. Throw in some pot and your risk of dehydration increases, especially if you vomit during a green out.

   2022 October 7, Jocelyn Solis-Moreira, “Mixing Weed And Alcohol? Crossfading Does This To Your Body”, in Discover Magazine

present singular third person greens out · participle present greening out · participle past greened out · past greened out

1. intransitiveslangtransitiveTo feel unwell or get sick as a result of using an excessive amount of cannabis.

   "I knew maybe four people who had 'greened out' in the cafeteria," said a recent graduate.

   2013 September 30, Bridget Forbes, “Cocaine, pot used by Winnipeg kids at younger ages”, in CBC

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   Grinspoon finishes with some sage advice on the best way to avoid greening out: "Keep the doses low and know yourself. If it happens to you, try to do a postmortem on what happened, like: 'Was there alcohol involved? Was there nicotine involved?' Was I overtired? Did I take five puffs when I usually take two puffs?'"

   2022 April 20, Ross Buchanan, “Why You Sometimes Feel Sick or Vomit After Smoking Weed”, in Vice

   Either way, by the middle of our conversation, she knew about how I woke up crying the night before because I dreamed of a mischief of rats living under my bed, that I'm in my "I-love-men era," how I’m grateful that I greened out on edibles and dissociated for two weeks because I think that it was the catalyst for my ego death […]

   2022 April 29, “Girls and their boobs — in that order”, in Yale Daily News, archived from the original on 29 Nov 2022