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keef

keef is the alternative spelling of kif.

Meaning of kif

Noun

kif (uncountable)

  1. A kind of cannabis smoked in Morocco and Algeria, for its narcotic or intoxicating effects.
    • 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
  2. The state of relaxed stupor induced by cannabis.
  3. The trichome of marijuana, a green powdery substance that falls from dry marijuana, high in THC and other cannabinoid compounds.

Proper noun capitalized: Keef

Keef (plural Keefs)

  1. A surname.

Forms of keef

pluralKeefs

Questions about keef

What does keef mean?
Keef means a surname.
What is keef the alternative spelling of?
Keef is the alternative spelling of kif.
What part of speech is keef?
Keef is a proper noun.

Words near keef in the dictionary

  1. keed
  2. keeds
  3. Keedy
  4. Keedys
  5. keedz
  6. keef
  7. Keefe
  8. Keefer
  9. Keefers
  10. Keefes
  11. keefir

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Adapted from Wiktionary: keef (page history and authors); Keef (page history and authors); kif (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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