choof
English
editEtymology
editPossibly related to chuff (“to make noisy puffing sounds”).
Pronunciation
editAudio (General Australian): (file)
Noun
editchoof (uncountable)
- (Australia, slang) Marijuana.
- Synonyms: see Thesaurus:marijuana
- 2009, Colin McLaren, Infiltration: The True Story of the Man Who Cracked the Mafia, page 68:
- Her biggest fear was eating away at her: was she going to be busted for smoking dope? Cindy enjoyed smoking choof occasionally.
Verb
editchoof (third-person singular simple present choofs, present participle choofing, simple past and past participle choofed)
- (Australia, slang) To smoke marijuana.
- 2009, Colin McLaren, Infiltration: The True Story of the Man Who Cracked the Mafia, page 29:
- Norman and I looked dishevelled, which meant we were usually offered a pre-rolled joint of locally grown product or a tiny piece of hash, and off we went, choofing away, like two New World lords […]
Derived terms
editFurther reading
edit- “choof n.”, in Green’s Dictionary of Slang, Jonathon Green, 2016–present