blim

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Noun

blim (plural blims)

1. (slang, UK) A small piece of cannabis resin.
   • 2003, “Soap Bar”, in The Manifesto‎^[1], performed by Goldie Looking Chain:

     Last night I went out driving in my car. I sparked up a fat spliff of fucking soap bar. A blim-burn burned right down to my dick and while I was distracted I fucking crashed into a brick wall, the car was fucking battered. The bonnet flipped up and the windscreen shattered. You're better of smoking the green instead cause it don't blim-burn and it's better for your head. […] Lying in your bed dropping blims on your pubes. Selling draw to your mates but it's really Oxo cubes. […] Well anyway, I think it's better myself to lean forwards when smoking soap bar because you are less likely to blim-burn.

   • 2005, James Fergusson, Kandahar Cockney, page 322:

     Getting stoned in Afghanistan was an extreme sport, a very long way indeed from the polite blims of hash that middle-class Londoners sometimes consume at parties.

   • 2008, Dhivan Thomas Jones, Green Eros, page 114:

     Have those chaps nothing better to do than to bust me for a blim?

   • 2010, Jesse Armstrong, Sam Bain, Peep Show, season 7, episode 5, spoken by Dobby (Isy Suttie):

     It's when you get a blim of hash and get it between two really hot knives, and then honk it up through a bottle or something … I think.

   • 2011, Niall Griffiths, Grits, page 274:

     — Can anyone spair us a blim? Mags sez.

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• Limb, limb