kif

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1. uncountableA kind of cannabis smoked in Morocco and Algeria, for its narcotic or intoxicating effects.

   ‘Some taxi driver, a Maghrebian…he suddenly swerved. They smoke kief, you know.’

   2000, JG Ballard, Super-Cannes, Fourth Estate, published 2011, page 52

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   The kief, which is the flower and seeds of the plant, is the strongest, and a pipe of it half the size of a common English tobacco-pipe, is sufficient to intoxicate.

   1809, James Grey Jackson, chapter VIII, in An Account of the Empire of Marocco

   I perceived the odour of kif, and recognised the voices of Selam the Second, Abd-el-Rhaman, and others; it was an Arab orgie in full swing.

   1882, Edmondo de Amicis, translated by C. Rollin-Tilton, Morocco: Its People & Places

   The trade goods – Persian rugs, salt, muskets, kif – trailed out behind them over the dunes, still lashed to the backs of rotting animals.

   1982, TC Boyle, Water Music, Penguin, published 2006, page 80

   […]then hung around the special Silver-Key-Members’ Lounge with the other ladies[…]smoking kif and making extremely delicate and oblique fun of their husbands’ sexual idiosyncrasies, […]

   1996, David Foster Wallace, Infinite Jest […], Boston, Mass.; New York, N.Y.: Little, Brown and Company, →ISBN, page 54

   Kif melts the brain; dexemyl sharpens the edges. (Kif makes you drift—makes you forget what someone said a minute before–hard to follow a long story or joke, […])

   2012, Susan Sontag, “9/5/65 Tangier, Tetouan”, in David Rieff, editor, As Consciousness Is Harnessed to Flesh, Farrar, Straus and Giroux

2. uncountableThe state of relaxed stupor induced by cannabis.
3. uncountableThe trichome of marijuana, a green powdery substance that falls from dry marijuana, high in THC and other cannabinoid compounds.

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