"Bowl"? A new one to me

[Indigo Som]

but if you google "smoke a bowl" you get 51,600 results. that's what
we always said in my bowl-smokin days. "smoke some bowl" sounds like
a weird (though understandable) extrapolation, almost like what
somebody might say if they spoke eng. as a foreign language, or if
they were really dorky & trying to appear with-it, or, just maybe, if
they'd smoked too many bowls....

>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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