Muggle

/ˈmʌɡl̩/ · noun

Meaning

(uncountable, chiefly in the plural) Marijuana..

Definitions by Sense

1. (uncountable, chiefly in the plural) Marijuana.
2. (countable) A marijuana cigarette; a joint.
3. Alternative letter-case form of Muggle.
4. (transitive, geocaching) To deface, destroy, or remove a geocache.
5. (intransitive, UK, Ireland, dialectal) Often followed by along: to live or work in an unorganized and unplanned way; to muddle along.

Example Sentences

But there was a drug in New Orleans, although it took me over nine months to find out anything about it—a drug of a very different and insidious kind! [...] It looked like chopped hay, or dried clover, and was rolled up in a double brown cigarette paper. In short, a "muggles", "weed", or "mootie", cannabis indica, Indian hemp, or, to give it its Mexican name, marijuana, which translated into English just means Mary Jane!

The boy said he had been in the habit of smoking something which youthful friends called "muggles," a childish name for marihuana.

While marijuana was still legal in New York, businessmen wanted to package Mezz [Mezzrow]'s muggle and turn it into a high-powered criminal enterprise. While tempted, Mezz rejected those efforts, as well.

Marijuana is a variety of hemp weed (Cannabis sativa) long common in Mexico, lately becoming common in the U. S. Its leaves can be dried, ground and rolled into cigarets, which are bootlegged under the name of "muggles," "reefers," or "Mary Warners." Thinner, shorter than standard cigarets, "muggles" are made from the small delicate leaves of the female marijuana plant.

“[...] Eddie, what is this cigarette? It tastes a bit like opium.” / “It’s a ‘muggles’, kid—Mex marijuana; it won’t hurt you any if you don’t inhale too deeply, but you’ll pass out if you do. [...]”

Windy, muggle-smoking Louis Armstrong has never had patience or skill to build an orchestra of his own. He is happy strutting before any good hot band where he can introduce himself as "The Reverend Satchel Mouth" and proceed to triple-tongue a cornet at incredible speed.

But even then "muggle" smoking does not affect along a given pattern. "Afflicted with hallucinations of terrifying extent," [James Skelly] Wright said, "he is liable to run amok, leaving a trail of crime – even murder, in his wake." Case after case in which criminals have admitted smoking "muggles" indicates this is true, according to Wright.

“Ever smoke any muggles?” he asked me. “Man, this is some golden-leaf I brought up from New Orleans, it’ll make you feel good, take a puff.”

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• muggles
• muggling
• muggled

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