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hasheesh

hasheesh is the rare spelling of hashish.

Meaning of hashish

Noun

hashish (usually uncountable, plural hashishes)

  1. (usually) The leaves and tender parts of the Indian hemp plant (which are intoxicating), which are dried for either chewing or smoking.
    • Coyly at first, but less guardedly as we grew bolder, we smoked the forbidden weed "Hashísh," conversing lengthily the while about that world of which I had seen so much.1855, Sir Richard Burton, Personal Narrative of a Pilgrimage to Al-Madinah and Meccah, Dover, published 1964, page 44
  2. (usually) A cannabis extract.
  3. (slang, usually) Marijuana generally.

Forms of hasheesh

pluralhasheeshes

Questions about hasheesh

What is hasheesh the rare spelling of?
Hasheesh is the rare spelling of hashish.

Words near hasheesh in the dictionary

  1. hashed brown
  2. hashed browns
  3. hashed out
  4. hashed over
  5. hashed up
  6. hasheesh
  7. hasheeshes
  8. Hashem
  9. Hashemi
  10. Hashemis
  11. hashemite

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