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Mary Janes

Mary Janes is the plural of Mary Jane.

Meaning of Mary Jane

Noun (1)

Mary Jane (uncountable)

  1. (slang) Marijuana.
    • Rolling up cannabis sativa, hitting the Mary Jane1995, “I Got 5 on It”, in Operation Stackola, performed by Luniz

Noun (2)

Mary Jane (plural Mary Janes)

  1. A type of shoe, usually for a girl, having a rounded toe and a strap with a buckle.
    • [Tony] Zanetta continued: “They found a common ground in David’s [Bowie] shoes. David was wearing yellow Mary Janes and Andy [Warhol] had been a shoe illustrator, which David knew so they began talking about shoes. Otherwise, it was not the greatest meeting [laughs]^([sic]).”2021 May 19, Joe Taysom, “Why Andy Warhol hated the David Bowie song about him”, in Far Out Magazine

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Questions about Mary Janes

What is Mary Janes the plural of?
Mary Janes is the plural of Mary Jane.

Words near Mary Janes in the dictionary

  1. Mary Ellens
  2. Mary garden
  3. Mary Gregory
  4. Mary Jane
  5. Mary Jane Rottencrotch
  6. Mary Janes
  7. Mary Joanna
  8. Mary Lou
  9. Mary Magdalene
  10. Mary Poppins
  11. Mary Poppins-esque

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Adapted from Wiktionary: Mary Janes (page history and authors); Mary Jane (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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