khat

Noun

khat (countable and uncountable, plural khats)

1. A shrub, Catha edulis, whose leaves are used as a mild stimulant when chewed or brewed as tea; also a drug produced from this plant.
   • They are chewing on khat, a small serrated, bitter leaf with remarkable stimulative properties. […] One of the great things about khat[…] is that after a good chew you need to do something—walking, running, chopping wood, vigorously reciting a poem, throwing a grenade, anything that requires...1967 July 9, Lawrence Fellows, “East Africa Turns On With Khat”, in The New York Times, →ISSN
   • Of course he was an amateur of quat – hashish – which delighted the cops.1974, Lawrence Durrell, Monsieur, Faber & Faber, published 1992, page 31

   Synonyms:

   Bushman's tea, miraa