tree = 'marijuana'

[Michael Newman]

I heard this from NYC teens around 2000.
Michael Newman
Associate Professor of Linguistics
Queens College/CUNY
michael.newman at qc.cuny.edu



On May 4, 2012, at 9:54 PM, Jonathan Lighter wrote:

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> From a 2011 Amazon.com review of the movie  _Bad Teacher_.
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> "She smokes tree, shows movies in class and is gorgeous from head to toe."
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> It's like "weed" but it's "tree."
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> JL
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