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bifta (plural biftas)

  1. (UK, slang) A cannabis cigarette.
    • 2002, Peter Craven, The Best Australian Stories, →ISBN, page 255:
      He half-stood, keeping his back bent, and extended his left hand and the bifta toward me.
    • 2014, Tommy Hawkins, Let's Get Dogs#!t, →ISBN:
      Such a perfect spot to have lunch, and another bifta. I don't think the rest of the tourists with us were pleased that all the guides were getting high, but it's the end of the season, so no one gives a shit anymore.
    • 2015, Andrew O'Hagan, The Illuminations, →ISBN, page 94:
      'Roll another fat one, Rashid,' Dooley said, looking over. 'Another giant bifta for the tea-break.'
  2. (Liverpool, slang) A cigarette.
    • 1998, Robert Newman, Manners, page 8:
      I go for a bifta. Contrary to the fags-and-black-coffee cliche, I'm about the only smoker in the division.
    • 2016, “Road Rage (Freestyle)”, performed by Little T (Josh Tate):
      Yo, yes light the bifta / I'm gonna rape your little sister
  3. (UK, slang, with "full") Everything that is available or possible; the works.
    • 2009, Martina Cole, The Ladykiller, →ISBN:
      'Well, hand relief is fifteen quid, a blow job's twenty, and the full bifta is forty-five quid.'
    • 2011, Mark Baxter, Paolo Hewitt, The Mumper, →ISBN:
      Suits, top hats, the full bifta, then we can swan around the owners' enclosure looking the bollocks.
    • 2015, J. R. Ward, Blood Kiss, →ISBN:
      The full stem to stern bifta, as they said.

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