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Mary jane

name, noun, slang

Definitions

Proper Noun
  1. 1
    A female given name.
Noun
  1. 1
    Marijuana. slang, uncountable

    "Rolling up cannabis sativa, hitting the Mary Jane"

  2. 2
    A type of shoe, usually for a girl, having a rounded toe and a strap with a buckle.

    "[Tony] Zanetta continued: “They found a common ground in David’s [Bowie] shoes. David was wearing yellow Mary Janes and Andy [Warhol] had been a shoe illustrator, which David knew so they began talking about shoes. Otherwise, it was not the greatest meeting [laughs]^([sic]).”"

  3. 3
    street names for marijuana wordnet

Etymology

Etymology 1

Calque of Spanish María Juana.

Etymology 2

Genericized trademark, named after a character in the Buster Brown comic strip with this name, licensed by the shoe manufacturer.

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