"let's smoke a L"

Laurence Horn laurence.horn at YALE.EDU
Tue Mar 11 21:58:00 UTC 2003


>My younger brother says this phrase is showing up regularly in
>hip-hop/rap music.  He and I suspect it refers to pot or some other
>type of dope, but aren't sure.  Anybody else heard it?
>
>Greg
>--
My almost 21-year-old son suggests it's a variant of "Let's smoke a
blunt", and somewhat speculatively theorizes that it refers
iconically to a lower-case l.

Larry



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