reefer

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Scrabble points
9
Words With Friends
9
Letters
6
Pronunciation
/ˈɹiːfɚ/ (US)
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/ˈɹiːfɚ/ (US) · /ˈɹiːfə/ (UK)

Definition of reefer

6 senses · 1 part of speech · etymology included

noun

  1. Someone who reefs sails, especially a midshipman.
    “Her reefer cap was all on one side and on her cheek there was the print of an anchor button she had pressed on while sleeping.”
    “The mess table, at which the reefers and mates made merry, was fixed in the middle of the berth.”
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noun

  1. Someone who reefs sails, especially a midshipman.
    “Her reefer cap was all on one side and on her cheek there was the print of an anchor button she had pressed on while sleeping.”
    “The mess table, at which the reefers and mates made merry, was fixed in the middle of the berth.”
  2. A reefer jacket; a close-fitting jacket or short coat of thick cloth.
  3. (US, colloquial)A refrigerated, insulated trailer, ship or shipping container.
    “Was the dark of the moon on the sixth of June In a Kenworth pullin' logs. Cab-over Pete with a reefer on And a Jimmy haulin' hogs.”
    “Next to the cash register, a bulletin board was thumbtacked with notes from deadheaders who needed loads heading west, and shippers looking for a reefer (refrigerated truck) going down to Florida.”
  4. (US)a refrigerator car (type of boxcar).
  5. (countable, dated, slang)A marijuana cigarette.
  6. (dated, slang, uncountable)Marijuana.
    “Daddy I don't want to go to school because the teacher's a jerk, he must think I'm a fool and all the kids smoke reefer, I think it'd be cheaper if I just got a job learned to be a street sweeper.”
    “As time went on and I smoked more reefer, I began to spend more time with other dope smokers, reminiscing on how good the sixties were, rather than actually participating in the current political movements.”

Definitions from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA.

Etymology

From reef + -er.

Anagrams of reefer

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