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MARY JANE
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Dictionary entry overview: What does Mary Jane mean?
• MARY JANE (noun)
The noun MARY JANE has 1 sense:
1. street names for marijuana
Familiarity information: MARY JANE used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Street names for marijuana
Classified under:
Nouns denoting man-made objects
Synonyms:
dope; gage; grass; green goddess; locoweed; Mary Jane; pot; sens; sess; skunk; smoke; weed
Hypernyms ("Mary Jane" is a kind of...):
cannabis; ganja; marihuana; marijuana (the most commonly used illicit drug; considered a soft drug, it consists of the dried leaves of the hemp plant; smoked or chewed for euphoric effect)
Context examples
As to Mary Jane, she is incorrigible, and my wife has given her notice, but there, again, I fail to see how you work it out.
(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
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