Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. Marijuana, especially a highly resinous form of marijuana prepared from the flowering tops and leaves of selected plants and usually ingested by smoking.
Wiktionary
- n. slang marijuana
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. The dried hemp plant, used in India for smoking. It is extremely narcotic and intoxicating.
WordNet 3.0
- n. a strong-smelling plant from whose dried leaves a number of euphoriant and hallucinogenic drugs are prepared
- n. 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
Etymologies
- From Bengali গাঁজা (gañja), from Sanskrit गञ्जा (gañjā, "hemp"). (Wiktionary)
- Hindi gāṁjhā, hemp resin, from Sanskrit gāñjyā-, of hemp, from gañjaḥ, hemp, perhaps alteration of gṛñjaḥ, a type of plant. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“Time and again he called ganja "the healing of the nation.”
“I don’t think that booze will hurt the baby now, but I think ganja is more the ticket.”
“In an economy quickly going down the toilet faster than a nickel bag when the police come a-knocking, decriminalized and government-sanctioned "ganja" could 'pot'-entially create more and literally' green 'jobs, add much needed tax revenues, and end the criminality and high-cost incarceration (inordinately of young black males) attached to its production, sale and consumption.”
“What kind of ganja were these guys were smoking before doing this video?”
“Repetitively hollerin '' ganja 'at the crowd and asking them to respond in kind just seemed silly and by the volume of the response, one would think the crowd thought the same - wrong call Mr B.”
“At the time, he spoke only a few words, including "brothers and sisters" - which is apparently how members of the cult, including parents, are addressed - as well as "ganja".”
“PALAKKAD: Forests in the State will be made 'ganja' free by conducting raids, Forest Minister Benoy Viswom has said.”
“ganja" could 'pot'-entially create more and literally' green 'jobs and add much needed tax revenues.”
“- Cheech & Chong bring their campaign for ganja to Washington ….”
“Sky stared, slack-jawed, at the location where so recently the ciudad de ganja had metastasized.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘ganja’.
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rastafari
dem woodz assoseeated wit da reegae mon..
( Reggae, Rastafari, Rasta, Jamaica, Zion, Haile Selassie, Africa, Caribbean )
( slang, randomness )Rastafari, puff, Jah, reggae, Haile Selassie, Jamaica, Kingston, Caribbean, Dominican, Zion, Africa, cannabis and 81 more...
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illicit drugs
Different terms for illicit drugs and drug paraphernalia. Please keep chemical names to the minimum, unless they're in common usage.
reefer, spliff, grass, joint, pot, ganja, heroin, cocaine, lsd, cannabis, marijuana, peyote and 20 more...
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Altered States Research Lab
Words and terms about (illicit) drugs and related subcultures.
reefer, golden brown, ganja, embalming fluid, shrooms, angel dust, bong, mescaline, handcuffs, padded cell, spliff, ecstasy and 79 more...
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LWC's Words
spork, heteroskedasticity, kurtosis, eigenspace, smithian, skewness, montanan, whoremonger, mellifluous, fishwife, papist, romanist and 142 more...
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ShuckFinn's Words
abecedarian, conflate, mondegreen, whit, truculent, downright, pugnacious, effluvium, canker, inveigle, obfuscate, melancholy and 227 more...
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Malachi_Constant's Words
triumverate, pandemic, parsnip, delineate, zamboni, parka, laser, swoop, malevolent, benevolent, fracas, tipsy and 372 more...
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spicolli's Words
terrapin, ravenous, fuck, sepulchral, garlic, suss, queer, curmudgeon, foodie, intricate, omphalos, subversion and 534 more...
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...:::bella:::...
originally started as an attempt to collect words I found visually and auditorially beautiful, as well as psychically evocative, this has become nothing more than a grab bag of word curiosities, a ...
bergamot, jambalaya, bee's knees, heliotrope, hosanna, gamboge, aureole, filial, madrigal, multilingual, sacrosanct, sojourn and 1072 more...
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oddball
wackadoodlery.
( personal list )
related (from me):
http://www.wordnik.com/lists/onomatopoeias--1
bric-a-brac, succotash, humbucker, skedaddle, scallywag, sassafras, gadzooks, humdinger, hoity-toity, wishy-washy, namby-pamby, ding dong and 441 more...
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zombiedepot's Words
sardonic, ganja, repute, putsch, loamy, bungle, dupe, astray, disembowel, maim, thou, cannabis and 43 more...
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Wonder words
Some words that invoke in me a sense of wonder.....
syzygy, to-do, mystic, limerence, sprawl, wiki, cyclic, synechdochically, ganja, logos, timbre, lovely and 1 more...
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Jamaica
irie, duppy, saltfish, ackee, callaloo, boonoonoonoos, jonga, pissabed, iniquity, quackoo, ruinate, braata and 28 more...
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Zissy's Favorite Words
jerkazoid, titillate, panties, delicious, ultimate, stimulates, wispy, velvety, erotica, banana, tiki, artsy fartsy and 19 more...
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English Words Derived from Hindi
Some surprises, at least for me!
pundit, thug, cushy, dungaree, punch, cot, chit, bandana, veranda, cummerbund, parcheesi, dinghy and 22 more...
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My first list
Words of interest
ganef, rebus, poseur, gneiss, kerfuffle, dickens, doppelganger, schlepp, slog, ganja, cruft, paterfamilias and 26 more...
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mindividual's Words
mindividual, skype, kilimanjaro, scroll, subatomic, ultramarine, ganja
Tweets
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