spliff

• spiff
• spleef
• splif

From Jamaican Creole, possibly a blend of split, referring to the ready-made wrap + whiff, referring to the smell of the smoke.[1]

• (UK) IPA^(key): /splɪf/

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• Rhymes: -ɪf

spliff (plural spliffs)

1. (slang, Jamaica, UK, Australia) A cannabis cigarette.

   smoke a spliff

   • 1992, Victor Headley, Yardie‎, 1993 edition, New York: Atlantic Monthly Press, page 167:

     Pablo switched off the wipers and struck a match to light the spliff he had just finished building.

   • 2001, Niall Griffiths, Sheepshagger‎, 2002 edition, New York: Thomas Dunne, page 104:

     Danny takes another toke on the spliff and then passes it over to Griff, who accepts it and draws deep on it and then points with the lit end across the room at Gwenno like some strange weatherman indicating a pocket of high pressure.

   • 2016, Kei Miller, “Chapter 1”, in Augustown, New York: Pantheon, page 14-15:

     “Well, well, well,” Ma Taffy says, sitting back and returning the spliff to her mouth. She exhales a cloud of ganja that envelops herself and the boy.

• See also Thesaurus:marijuana cigarette

spliff (third-person singular simple present spliffs, present participle spliffing, simple past and past participle spliffed)

1. (rare) To smoke a spliff.

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• IPA^(key): /ˈsplɪf/
• Hyphenation: spliff

spliff (plural: spliff dem or spliffs dem, quantified: spliff)

1. A conical marijuana cigarette; a joint; a spliff.

   Yuh can drink a beer but don't yuh dare bun a spliff.

   You can have a beer but don't you dare smoke a joint.

• Richard Allsopp, editor, Dictionary of Caribbean English Usage, Kingston, Jamaica: University of the West Indies Press, 1996 (2003 printing), →ISBN, page 524