hashish

• hasheesh

From Arabic حَشِيش‎ (ḥašīš, “hay, dried herb”).

• IPA^(key): /həˈʃiːʃ/, /hæˈʃiːʃ/, /ˈhæʃɪʃ/

hashish (usually uncountable, plural hashishes)

1. The leaves and tender parts of the Indian hemp plant (which are intoxicating), which are dried for either chewing or smoking.
   • 1855, Sir Richard Burton, Personal Narrative of a Pilgrimage to Al-Madinah and Meccah, Dover 1964, p. 44:

     Coyly at first, but less guardedly as we grew bolder, we smoked the forbidden weed "Hashísh," conversing lengthily the while about that world of which I had seen so much.

   • 1876: Louisa May Alcott, Eight Cousins

     You know hasheesh is the extract of hemp?

2. A cannabis extract.
3. (slang) Marijuana generally.

• See also Thesaurus:marijuana

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