herbals

herbals
n
marihuana. The term is a predictable borrowing of one component of the offi-cial designation 'herbal cannabis' for the leaves and flowers of the plant sold and consumed loose, as opposed to com-pacted into hashish. It had partly sup-planted the form (h)erb by the later 1990s.
► 'Didn't any of them enjoy a lugon the her-bals?' (Q magazine, March 1997)

Contemporary slang . 2014.

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