reefer
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reefer¹
- /ˈɹiːfɚ/ US
- /ˈɹiːfə/ UK
Sounds like refer · Rhymes with -iːfə(ɹ)
Where it comes from
From reef + -er.
noun reefers
- Someone who reefs sails, especially a midshipman. Her reefer cap was all on one side and on her cheek there was the print of an anchor button she had pressed on while sleeping.
- A reefer jacket; a close-fitting jacket or short coat of thick cloth.
reefer²
- /ˈɹiːfɚ/ US
- /ˈɹiːfə/ UK
Sounds like refer · Rhymes with -iːfə(ɹ)
Where it comes from
Clipping of refrigerator.
noun reefers
- A refrigerated, insulated trailer, ship or shipping container. Was the dark of the moon on the sixth of June In a Kenworth pullin' logs. Cab-over Pete with a reefer on And a Jimmy haulin' hogs.
- a refrigerator car (type of boxcar).
reefer³
- /ˈɹiːfɚ/ US
- /ˈɹiːfə/ UK
Sounds like refer · Rhymes with -iːfə(ɹ)
Where it comes from
Uncertain. Perhaps from Mexican Spanish grifa (“cannabis”)/Central American Spanish grifo (“someone who smokes cannabis”), or from the rolled-up appearance of a marijuana cigarette resembling a reefed sail. First attested in the 1920s.
noun reefers
- A marijuana cigarette. 'Most of the real hep-cats smoke reefers,' explained Leiter. 'Wouldn't be allowed most places.'
- Marijuana. Daddy I don't want to go to school because the teacher's a jerk, he must think I'm a fool and all the kids smoke reefer, I think it'd be cheaper if I just got a job learned to be a street sweeper.
