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kif

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Scrabble points
10
Words With Friends
10
Letters
3
Pronunciation
/kiːf/
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/kiːf/ · /kɪf/

Definition of kif

5 senses · 3 parts of speech · etymology included

noun

  1. (uncountable)A kind of cannabis smoked in Morocco and Algeria, for narcotic or intoxicating effect.
    “The kief, which is the flower and seeds of the plant, is the strongest, and a pipe of it half the size of a common English tobacco-pipe, is sufficient to intoxicate.”
    “I perceived the odour of kif, and recognised the voices of Selam the Second, Abd-el-Rhaman, and others; it was an Arab orgie in full swing.”
    “The trade goods – Persian rugs, salt, muskets, kif – trailed out behind them over the dunes, still lashed to the backs of rotting animals.”
    “[…]then hung around the special Silver-Key-Members’ Lounge with the other ladies[…]smoking kif and making extremely delicate and oblique fun of their husbands’ sexual idiosyncrasies, […]”
    “‘Some taxi driver, a Maghrebian…he suddenly swerved. They smoke kief, you know.’”
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noun

  1. (uncountable)A kind of cannabis smoked in Morocco and Algeria, for narcotic or intoxicating effect.
    “The kief, which is the flower and seeds of the plant, is the strongest, and a pipe of it half the size of a common English tobacco-pipe, is sufficient to intoxicate.”
    “I perceived the odour of kif, and recognised the voices of Selam the Second, Abd-el-Rhaman, and others; it was an Arab orgie in full swing.”
    “The trade goods – Persian rugs, salt, muskets, kif – trailed out behind them over the dunes, still lashed to the backs of rotting animals.”
    “[…]then hung around the special Silver-Key-Members’ Lounge with the other ladies[…]smoking kif and making extremely delicate and oblique fun of their husbands’ sexual idiosyncrasies, […]”
    “‘Some taxi driver, a Maghrebian…he suddenly swerved. They smoke kief, you know.’”
  2. (uncountable)The state of relaxed stupor induced by cannabis.
  3. (uncountable)The trichome of marijuana, a green powdery substance that falls from dry marijuana, high in THC and other cannabinoid compounds.

adj

  1. (alt-of, alternative)Alternative form of kiff.

name

  1. (abbreviation, acronym, alt-of)Acronym of Knowledge Interchange Format.

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Etymology

From Moroccan Arabic كيف (kīf, “opiate”), from Arabic كَيْف (kayf, “joy”).

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