gage

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Estimated CEFR level: C2 — Proficiency

Estimated from word frequency; not an official CEFR classification.

Definition

  1. noun street names for marijuana
  2. noun a measuring instrument for measuring and indicating a quantity such as the thickness of wire or the amount of rain etc.
  3. verb place a bet on

Etymology

From Middle English gage, from later Old French or early Middle French gager (verb), (also guagier in Old French) gage (noun), ultimately from Frankish *waddi, from Proto-Germanic *wadją (whence English wed). Doublet of wage, from the same origin through the Old Northern French variant wage. See also mortgage.

In classic literature

Synonyms

pot, grass, green goddess, dope, weed, sess, sens, smoke, skunk, locoweed, Mary Jane

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