"Bowl"? A new one to me

Jesse Sheidlower jester at PANIX.COM
Tue Mar 7 02:11:07 UTC 2006


On Mon, Mar 06, 2006 at 09:05:49PM -0500, Wilson Gray wrote:
> "Smoke some bowl" = "smoke some grass."
>
> Only twenty Googlits.

And two HDAS entries!

Well, the HDAS senses cover 'a bowlful of marijuana' and 'a pipe
used for smoking marijuana', not 'marijuana' itself. But this
sense seems familiar to me, despite its relatively sparse
Google evidence.

Jesse Sheidlower
OED

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