zol

plural zols · alternative zoll

1. South AfricacountableslanguncountableA cannabis cigarette.

   Look, you can't smoke four hundred zols a day...

   2001, K. Sello Duiker, The quiet violence of dreams, page 9

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   An important man as he was the only source of the brown paper used for rolling zols.

   1983, Athol Fugard, Notebooks, 1960-1977, page 176

   "All right, where's the zol?" Raju asked. "Why?" "You want to go in, we've got to give him dagga."

   2007, Shunna Pillay, Shadow people, page 43

   Along with pop culture came drug culture, and suddenly everyone was smoking zol.

   2011, Erich Rautenbach, The Unexploded Boer

   Yoh! I'm so gatvol of this tjoekie and need a zol to handle these moggy people.

   2025 March 26, Khanyisile Ngcobo, “'Yoh! You're in the OED' – South Africa makes its linguistic mark”, in BBC, archived from the original on 23 Apr 2025