khat

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Sounds like cat, Cat, kat, cart · Rhymes with -ɑːt, -æt

Borrowed from Arabic قَات (qāt).

countable, uncountable 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 boldnes