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Reefer   Listen
noun
Reefer  n.  
1.
(Naut.) One who reefs; a name often given to midshipmen.
2.
A close-fitting jacket or short coat of thick cloth.
3.
A marijuana cigarette. (Slang)





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"Reefer" Quotes from Famous Books



... You know that on this steamer there is only a first-class and a third-class, and they only allow peasants—that is the rift-raft—to go in the third. If you have got on a reefer jacket and have the faintest resemblance to a gentleman or a bourgeois you must go first-class, if you please. You must fork out five hundred roubles if you die for it. Why, I ask, have you made such a rule? Do you want to raise the prestige of educated ...
— The Witch and Other Stories • Anton Chekhov
... occasioned by a splinter, on the bridge of the nose, brought to his remembrance Bob Clewlines, who had served in the same ship: the tar recognised him also; but, so far from making himself known to him, he hid his face in his hand: the reefer, however, was resolved to bring him to. "What, Bob Clewlines!" cried he, "do I not hail an old shipmate in you, a quarter-master on board the ——, the bravest heart of oak, the best reefer, and the merriest steersman ...
— The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction - No. 291 - Supplement to Vol 10 • Various


Words linked to "Reefer" :   ganja, butt, fag, joint, cigaret, spliff, coffin nail


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