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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.

—In the Tail of the Peacock

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noun Smoking material, such as Indian hemp, used especially in the Maghreb.
noun The euphoria caused by smoking this material.

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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