kif

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He begged a match from Cadour, produced a ragged cigarette from inside his turban, and lit it skilfully in the wind: he probably lived chiefly on cigarettes, kif, and green tea, eating when there was bread; he was lean and sun-dried as a shred of tobacco, would sleep in snatches and often, his jellab-hood over his face to keep off the sun or the dew.

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  • Sheri sat in a corner smoking kif, her gray eyes distant. —  F ;SF; - vol 102 issue 03 - March 2002
  • Finding the quality acceptable (local kif, not Martian, but pretty good) he took another May I ask your profession Investigative agent. —  F ;SF; - vol 098 issue 03 - March 2000
  • After more than an hour of waiting and pacing and dreaming of kif, Stef lounged out, holding his nose until he was past the Darksider, and took a hovercab home. —  F ;SF; - vol 098 issue 03 - March 2000
  • He stared like any tourist at a cathedral like a kif-head's dream and then, feeling tired and hungry, crossed the square and drifted into the archways of a huge building that filled the far side, a market of some sort crowded with shops and loudly bargaining people. —  F ;SF; - vol 098 issue 03 - March 2000
  • Only Maks knew what he meant; Yamashita looked around for a kif pipe but saw none. —  F ;SF; - vol 099 issue 06 - December 2000
 

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  1. Colloquial Arabic kēf, from Arabic kayf, kef, condition, pleasure, opiate.
 

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