rizla

From the trademark for a popular brand, derived from French Riz Lacroix (from the use of rice paper and the inventor's family name).

rizla (plural rizlas)

1. A rolling paper.
   • 1997, Alex Garland, The beach:

     A slight breeze picked up, sending a few loose rizlas skimming along the sand.

   • 1998, M C Strong, The great rock discography:

     Answers on the back of a rizla paper to the usual address.

   • 2005, Matthew Fuller, Media ecologies: materialist energies in art and technoculture:

     At the front of the classroom the cadaver of a singer is laid out on a workbench cluttered with Bunsen burners, rizlas, vinyl.

• Rizal