Found in? / on? Google

[Wilson Gray]

That I pretty much got. What I don't get is how weed *without* cocaine
is the opposite of weed *with* cocaine, which is what the examples
appear to say, IMO, as opposed to merely different from it. Cocaine
can be added to any kind of smoke, whether it be stems-&-seeds or
pure-de skunk bud.

-Wilson

On 9/25/07, Benjamin Zimmer <bgzimmer at babel.ling.upenn.edu> wrote:
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> On 9/25/07, Wilson Gray <hwgray at gmail.com> wrote:
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> > Twenty-nine hits: smoke crip
> [...]
> > Your guess as to what it means to _smoke crip_ is as good as mine.
>
> This looks like a job for Urban Dictionary...
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> http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Crip&defid=399003
> Crip
> Good quality marijuana. Short for crippy. Used in Florida, especially
> Dade County.
> Wassup dawg, I got that crip on compound, holla at ya boi.
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> http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Crip&defid=391789
> Crip
> Sensemilla marijuana.
> Yo son, you wanna match on some crip?
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