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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
reefer
noun
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Another source of inspiration was the naval reefer jacket of the late nineteenth century.
▪ Renate was sitting on the edge of the king-sized bed with the black sheets, smoking a reefer.
▪ Top Shop is doing a brisk trade in reefer jackets and A-line car coats.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Reefer

Reefer \Reef"er\ (-?r), n.

  1. (Naut.) One who reefs; -- a name often given to midshipmen.
    --Marryat.

  2. A close-fitting lacket or short coat of thick cloth.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
reefer

"marijuana cigarette," 1920s, perhaps an alteration of Mexican Spanish grifo "marijuana, drug addict" [OED]; or perhaps from reef (v.), on resemblance to a rolled sail. It also meant "pickpocket" in criminal slang (1935). Reefer also was a nickname for the sailing navy's equivalent to a midshipman (1818) "because they attend in the tops during the operation of reefing" [Century Dictionary], which is the source of the meaning "coat of a nautical cut" (1878) worn by sailors and fishermen "but copied for general use in the fashions of 1888-90" [CD].

Wiktionary
reefer

Etymology 1 n. 1 (context nautical English) Someone who reefs sails, especially a midshipman. 2 A reefer jacket; a close-fitting jacket or short coat of thick cloth. Etymology 2

n. (context colloquial chiefly US English) A refrigerated, insulated trailer or shipping container. Etymology 3

n. 1 (context slang English) A marijuana cigarette. 2 (context slang uncountable English) marijuana.

WordNet
reefer

n. marijuana leaves rolled into a cigarette for smoking [syn: joint, marijuana cigarette, stick, spliff]

Wikipedia
Reefer

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Reefer (band)

Reefer is an alternative hip hop group based in Maui County, Hawaii. It consists of Nicholas Thorburn and Daddy Kev. The duo released the debut album, Reefer, on Alpha Pup Records in 2008. Their song, "May Baleen", was listed by Consequence of Sound as one of the Top 10 Subaquatic Tunes in 2009.

Usage examples of "reefer".

To the mezuzah nailed up over the vegetable reefer and the Zionist banner hanging in back of the salad table Da Conho added this prize.

He smelled of reefer and was too cool to approve of her Saturday work uniform of jeans, denim clogs, and a wacky-colored Oilily sweater over a white T-shirt.

She broke off the unsmokable portion of the reefer, jammed the good part between her lips, and lit up.

Captain Dudley Beaumont was standing at the after end of the cabin, one hand behind his back, the other hooked around the buttons of his reefer.

Several people shuffled their feet, and when Drummond looked at Beaumont he saw that he was sitting exactly upright, fingers tucked between his reefer buttons.

Emily was the exception to this family pattern, contenting herself with a little sherry and three long, slim reefers, which she drew from an elegant foil package covered with gold script and Lissajous curves, and which she inhaled sippingly, her lips rapidly shuddering with a very faint, low, trilling sound.

Finale Club on South San Pedro in what had been Little Tokyo before the residents were all shipped off to detention camps, and listening to Bird, Miles, Dizzy, and everybody else then on the Coast, under the low metal ceiling among all the boppers, reefers, goatees, and porkpie hats.

Not that there was any pressing hurry: the reefer kept Brannigan at only a few hundred millikelvin above absolute zero, and that cold did appear to offer some hindrance to the spread: On the negative side, Volyova knew that no human being had ever survived revival from such a cold, but that seemed oddly irrelevant against the Captain's condition.

It was still striving to hold the cells of his body in stasis, even though the shell of the reefer had ruptured in great Palaeolithic cracks, fibrous metallic growth spilling out.

The antiquated reefer which had until recently cased him was now shattered and fissured.

Near midnight: he'd been drinking scotch, he blew a reefer on the way over, the bennies he'd been swallowing weren't catching up with the booze.

John Reddy was talking with his buddies Orrie Buhr, Calvo, Clyde Meunzer, leaning against the acid-green Caddie and passing a butt among them (a reefer?

Comments: homo coitus interruptus, Junior levies on-the-spot fines-- cash, jewelry, reefers.

Golden days - though maybe it has been a bloody day for him,' - nodding towards Forshaw, who walked slowly, awkwardly towards the forehatch, his chin trembling, his companions urging him in a whisper 'to bear up, old chap, and not let those - ing Flitches see', for a knot of grinning reefers stood by the larboard rail.

The ointment was now made and Smith carried off a suitable number of gallipots for their syphilitic patients: Stephen shut and double-locked the dispensary door (seamen were much given to dosing themselves) and hearing the main body of reefers leave their berth with a sound like that of a herd of mad cattle, he walked in.