kif
/kiːf/
kif noun: a kind of cannabis smoked in Morocco and Algeria, for its narcotic or intoxicating effects. Also the alternative form of kiff.
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Noun
kif (uncountable)
- 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
- I perceived the odour of kif, and recognised the voices of Selam the Second, Abd-el-Rhaman, and others; it was an Arab orgie in full swing.1882, Edmondo de Amicis, translated by C. Rollin-Tilton, Morocco: Its People & Places
- The state of relaxed stupor induced by cannabis.
- The trichome of marijuana, a green powdery substance that falls from dry marijuana, high in THC and other cannabinoid compounds.
Proper noun capitalized: KIF
KIF
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Also used as
kif is also the alternative form of kiff.
Examples of kif in a sentence
- The trade goods – Persian rugs, salt, muskets, kif – trailed out behind them over the dunes, still lashed to the backs of rotting animals.1982, TC Boyle, Water Music, Penguin, published 2006, page 80:
- […]then hung around the special Silver-Key-Members’ Lounge with the other ladies[…]smoking kif and making extremely delicate and oblique fun of their husbands’ sexual idiosyncrasies, […]1996, David Foster Wallace, Infinite Jest […], Boston, Mass.; New York, N.Y.: Little, Brown and Company, →ISBN, page 54:
- Kif melts the brain; dexemyl sharpens the edges. (Kif makes you drift—makes you forget what someone said a minute before–hard to follow a long story or joke, […])2012, Susan Sontag, “9/5/65 Tangier, Tetouan”, in David Rieff, editor, As Consciousness Is Harnessed to Flesh, Farrar, Straus and Giroux:
Forms of kif
| Noun | |
|---|---|
| alternative form | kaif |
| alternative form | keef |
| alternative form | kef |
| alternative form | kief |
| Adjective | |
| comparative | more kif |
| superlative | most kif |
Origin of kif
From Moroccan Arabic كيف (kīf, “opiate”), from Arabic كَيْف (kayf, “joy”).
Words that rhyme with kif
Questions about kif
- What does kif mean?
- Kif means a kind of cannabis smoked in Morocco and Algeria, for its narcotic or intoxicating effects.
- How do you use kif in a sentence?
- The trade goods – Persian rugs, salt, muskets, kif – trailed out behind them over the dunes, still lashed to the backs of rotting animals.
- What part of speech is kif?
- Kif can be a noun or a proper noun.
- How do you pronounce kif?
- Kif is pronounced /kiːf/.
Words near kif in the dictionary
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Adapted from Wiktionary: kif (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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