Mexican green
- noun
- NSFW
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marihuana mexicana
- He bought some Mexican green from his friend.
Examples
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The dealer claimed his Mexican green was the best on the market.
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They often smoke Mexican greens during parties.
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Stories about the strength of Mexican green have circulated in the city for years.
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When traveling in the 1970s, he tried Mexican green for the first time.
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The dealer claimed his Mexican green was the best on the market.
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Stories about the strength of Mexican green have circulated in the city for years.
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When traveling in the 1970s, he tried Mexican green for the first time.
Synonyms
A strong, popular type of marijuana first grown near Acapulco, Mexico
Surface Forms
Morphology
The drug-specific sense 'a potent variety of marijuana from Mexico' is slang and not directly derivable from the literal constituents. 'Mexican' only signals origin and 'green' is ambiguous (color or various drug slangs, here even listed as ketamine), so a B1 learner who knows the words would not reliably infer this idiomatic drug meaning without prior exposure.
Etymology
Mexican green comes from U.S. street talk in the 1960s and 1970s; one popular story says people called the strong marijuana 'Mexican green' because it was green and Mexican. That's why Mexican green today means 'very strong marijuana from Mexico'.
