green
- noun
- /ɡrin/
- NSFW
- He offered me some green after the party to help me relax.
Going to get off of that blow cane and that sweet, sweet green, you know?
- Going to get off of that blow cane and that sweet, sweet green, you know?
Examples
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Babe, I could, uh,... really use some green.
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All right, everybody cough up some green for the little lady.
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Hey, dude, you know where I can get some green?
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Yeah, well, I had the green.
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Ain't nothing worth more than the green.
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About how justice gets tangled up in red tape... ...or just bought off by the green.
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It's California green.
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She was excited to try the new green, which her friends recommended.
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Many people in the neighborhood talked about the quality of the green they got from the dealer.
Synonyms
A street name for the drug ketamine
A drug called ketamine used illegally to get high
A street name for the illegal drug ketamine
A slang name for the drug ketamine used by people to feel very calm
A slang word for the drug ketamine that makes people feel strange
Idioms
- Jargon
To look at the slope and surface of a golf green to decide how to hit a putt
Compounds
- US
An official card that allows a foreign person to live and work permanently in the United States
A political party that wants to protect the environment and support fair social policies
A period in the 1960s and 1970s when new seeds and fertilizers greatly increased food crops
- Specialized
A way to release software using two identical systems to move users to the new version
A range of mountains in Vermont, USA that are part of the Appalachian Mountains
A river in the western United States that starts in Wyoming and flows south into the Colorado River
- Specialized
Tiny living things in water that make food from light and often look blue-green
- Literature
A soldier in green with no badge sent so a country can deny sending them
A West African monkey that lives in open grasslands with a greenish-grey back and a yellow tail
- Archaic
A soup made from the meat of green turtles, often served as a special food
A low, soft green plant with creeping stems often used to make Christmas wreaths
- South African
A monkey that lives on the African savanna with greenish-grey fur and a yellow tail
A small green or yellow-green toad with black bars and stripes found in North America
Surface Forms
Etymology
Green as a slang name for a drug is probably from the colour of pills or their packaging; a helpful way to remember this is that street names often use colours. So when you hear green used this way, it usually means a drug sold under that colour name.