Khat

Quick meaning: Khat is a noun meaning A shrub, Catha edulis, whose leaves are used as a mild stimulant when chewed or brewed as tea; also a drug produced from this plant.

Meaning

A shrub, Catha edulis, whose leaves are used as a mild stimulant when chewed or brewed as tea; also a drug produced from this plant.

Example Sentences

Of course he was an amateur of quat – hashish – which delighted the cops.

‘And skinny Arab beggars who chew qat all day long to kill their appetites and get high on the weed.’

Habitually munching on narcotic leaves of khat, they are easy enough to spot, their gleaming Toyota four-wheel-drives slicing paths around beaten-up wheelbarrows and pushcarts.

They are chewing on khat, a small serrated, bitter leaf with remarkable stimulative properties. […] One of the great things about khat[…] is that after a good chew you need to do something—walking, running, chopping wood, vigorously reciting a poem, throwing a grenade, anything that requires boldness and physical initiative.

Word Forms

• khats

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include relations, qhat, quat, muguka, kassu, kava.

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