baccy

baccy
n
British
tobacco.
This now rather dated alteration of the standard term replaced the previ-ous forms 'bacca' and 'bacco' early in the 20th century. (Cannabis was known joc-ularly in the 1960s and 1970s as wacky baccy.)

Contemporary slang . 2014.

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