weedman

English

Noun

weedman (plural weedmen)

1. Alternative form of weed man
   1. Male drug dealer; usually a cannabis dealer.
      • 1971, Gus John, Derek Humphry, Because they're black:

        They go to the weedmen and buy five pounds worth of weed at a time and so the weedmen are really glad of their custom.

      • 2009, The United States Patents Quarterly, page 1545:

        Wilchcombe became friendly with the LJESB members, who were working in an adjacent studio at Audio Vision on their Kings of Crunk album. Lil Jon came up with the idea for a song about calling a “weedman” after someone suggested they call a supplier of marijuana or "weed."

      • 2019, Rachel Wagner, Back Like I Never Left: Dating Stories:

        They cover a few months of meeting men off the street, maintaining relationships with weedmen, and curving people fast as hell.

      • 2019 April 19, Mike Davis, “NJ marijuana legalization: What 4/20 means with legal weed on the horizon”, in Asbury Park Press:

        "For decades we 'weedmen/weedwomen' did a great service providing marijuana to 'we the people' in spite of the government's racist, destructive declared war on us all,and we still won," Forchion wrote on Facebook.

   2. Man who works in the suppression of weeds (unwanted plants).
      • 1906, The Independent, page 1024:

        We hold their homes!—no bugle blows A weedman's homely deeds! He made a garden—sowed a seed— But we have plucked the flowers!

      • 1976, Proceedings of the ... British Crop Protection Conference--Weeds, page 767:

        For weedmen, what will the new world be like for the long term ahead?

      • 1978, Farm Journal - Volume 102, page 24:

        Moderate amounts won't, say Iowa weedmen — amounts that you might have after soybeans or up to 125 bu. of corn where you've chiseled stalks or disked them twice.

      • 1984, Cathy Trost, Elements of Risk, page 24:

        When the annual North Central State Weed Control Conference was held that year, the "weedmen" were reassured that 2,4-D applied in twice the normal dosage to pastures produced no toxic effects to grazing sheep and cows.

See also

• weedwoman

Anagrams

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