Crossword clues for greenie
Wiktionary
n. 1 (context chiefly Australia New Zealand slang often derogatory English) An environmentalist; someone who shows concern for the environment. 2 (context Australia by extension English) A member of the Green Party. 3 (context US Wyoming derogatory slang English) A person from Colorado; ''after the color of the Colorado license plate''. 4 (context US slang English) A beginner, a novice. 5 (context US slang English) A tablet of amphetamine.
Wikipedia
Greenie may refer to:
- Greenie (Australian bird), an Australian lorikeet
- Greenie (Scottish bird), the European Greenfinch
- The mascot of Isidore Newman School in New Orleans, Louisiana
- The mascot of Christ School in Arden, North Carolina
- Greenie (drug), a psychostimulant drug of the phenethylamine class
- A common or derogatory term for an environmentalist, a person who supports the goals of the environmental movement
- " The Greenies", an episode of the TV series The Goodies
- La Salle Greenies, the varsity team representing La Salle Green Hills
- A kind of Goblin in British folklore.
- A slang term for the Xcelite model R3322 3/32" flat tip pocket screwdriver
Usage examples of "greenie".
Crossing a broad gap in the cloud plain, Rachel saw the Greenie rise up behind them, taking a look upsun, then drop back down to sweep along the base of the clouds, slowly falling behind, but winging in the same direction that they were, shadowing from a safe distance.
So long as the Greenie guessed where they were going, and kept cutting upsun, Tigger would not shake her.
He led her through a thick cloudbank, then doubled back, climbing swiftly upsun, meaning to silence the Greenie following them.
Unable to flee upsun, or to the aerostat, the Greenie girl had to dive for the deck, in a stern chase Tigger was sure to win.
It simply rolled away on its little wheels to the chinaware chest, where it extruded enough twiglets to open the chest and take something out, while Greenie rolled forward and grabbed me again.
And he found it embarrassing to get down on his knees in his underwear, and like the other guys in the room he always pretended his sneakers were like way under the bed and he had to stay down there a while to find them and get them out, when he prayed, but he did it, and beseeched the ceiling and thanked the ceiling, and after maybe five months Gately was riding the Greenie at 0430 to go clean human turds out of the Shattuck shower and all of a sudden realized that quite a few days had gone by since he'd even thought about Demerol or Talwin or even weed.
And since no one knew what the Greenies were or were not, they had thankfully given the problem to Ulice Ston, who had never even seen a Greenie, and knew next to nothing about botany and alien psychology.