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grifo

grifo noun: cannabis.

Noun

grifo (uncountable)

  1. (slang) Cannabis.
    • […] the smoking in cigarettes or pipes of marihuana or grifo. Its use is as demoralizing as the use of narcotics. Smoking grifo is quite prevalent along the Oregon Short Line Railroad; and Idaho has no law to cope with the use and spread […]1972, United States. Commission on Marihuana and Drug Abuse, Marihuana: a Signal of Misunderstanding, page 484
    • The operator was a man who liked to smoke grifo. Just my luck that day, my friend backpack happened to have a good supply of what I needed to sell to him.2017, Marcelo Mendoza, Robert L. Barnes, El Gato Negro: Escaping Thirteen Deaths, volume IV, page 657

Origin of grifo

Related to Spanish grifa.

Questions about grifo

What does grifo mean?
Grifo means cannabis.
What part of speech is grifo?
Grifo is a noun.

Words near grifo in the dictionary

  1. griffons
  2. Griffos
  3. griffs
  4. Griffy
  5. Griffys
  6. grifo
  7. grifolin
  8. grifon
  9. grifonin
  10. grifonins
  11. grifons

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