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reefer

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noun

Nautical. a person who reefs.

a short, close-fitting coat or jacket of thick cloth, similar to a pea jacket.

a woman's tailored, fitted, single- or double-breasted coat of durable material with a collar.

Origin:
1820–30; reef² + -er¹

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noun Slang.

a marijuana cigarette.

Origin:
1930–35; probably < Mexican Spanish grifa; see griefo

noun Informal.

a refrigerator, especially one large enough to be walked into.

a refrigerator car, ship, truck, etc.

Origin:
1910–15; alteration and shortening of refrigerator

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reefer¹ (ˈriːfə)

—n
1.	nautical a person who reefs, such as a midshipman
2.	another name for reefing jacket
3.	slang a hand-rolled cigarette, esp one containing cannabis

[C19: from reef²; applied to the cigarette because of its resemblance to the rolled reef of a sail]

reefer² (ˈriːfə)

—n
	a ship, lorry, or other form of transport designed to carry refrigerated cargo

[C20: shortened and adapted from refrigerator]

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Word Origin & History

reefer

"marijuana cigarette," 1920s, perhaps an alteration of Mex.Sp. grifo "marijuana, drug addict;" or perhaps from reef (2), on resemblance to a rolled sail.

American Heritage

Medical Dictionary

reefer reef·er (rē'fər)
n.
Marijuana, especially a marijuana cigarette.

Slang Dictionary

reefer definition

[ˈrifɚ]

n.
a refrigerator. : A new reefer costs nearly $1,000!
n.
and reef. cannabis; a marijuana cigarette. (Drugs. Akin to greefo.) : He had a fat reef in his hand when he was busted.

Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions by Richard A. Spears.Fourth Edition.
Copyright 2007. Published by McGraw Hill.
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"Kitchens were different then, too—not only what came out of them, but their smells and sounds. A hot pie cooling smells different from a frozen pie thawing. Oilcloth and linoleum and apples in an open bowl and ruffled rubber aprons make a different aromatic mix from Formica and ceramic tile and mangoes in an acrylic fruit ripener and plastic-coated aprons printed with "Who invited all these tacky people?" And the kitchen sounds. I am not sure that today's kitchen is noisier. But the noises are different. Today you get the song of the food processor and the blender, the intermittent hum of the reefer and the freezer, the buzz-slosh-and-grunt of the dishwasher, the violently audible digestive processes of the waste disposal in the sink. Then it was the whir and clatter of the hand-powered eggbeater, the thunk-thunk-thunk of somebody mashing potatoes, or, in green-pea season, the crisp pop of pea pod and the rattle-rattle-rattle of peas into the pan."

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