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zol

zol noun: a cannabis cigarette.

Noun

zol (countable and uncountable, plural zols)

  1. (South Africa, slang) A cannabis cigarette.
    • An important man as he was the only source of the brown paper used for rolling zols.1983, Athol Fugard, Notebooks, 1960-1977, page 176
    • Look, you can't smoke four hundred zols a day...2001, K. Sello Duiker, The quiet violence of dreams, page 9

Examples of zol in a sentence

  • Along with pop culture came drug culture, and suddenly everyone was smoking zol.2011, Erich Rautenbach, The Unexploded Boer:
  • I'm so gatvol of this tjoekie and need a zol to handle these moggy people.2025 March 26, Khanyisile Ngcobo, “'Yoh! You're in the OED' – South Africa makes its linguistic mark”, in BBC:

Forms of zol

pluralzols
alternative formzoll

Origin of zol

Borrowed from Afrikaans zol.

Questions about zol

What does zol mean?
Zol means a cannabis cigarette.
How do you use zol in a sentence?
Along with pop culture came drug culture, and suddenly everyone was smoking zol.
What part of speech is zol?
Zol is a noun.
What is the plural of zol?
The plural of zol is zols.

Words near zol in the dictionary

  1. zoite
  2. zoites
  3. Zoji Pass
  4. zokor
  5. zokors
  6. zol
  7. Zola
  8. Zoladex
  9. Zoladz
  10. Zolaesque
  11. Zolaism

Source and license

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