Definition

Noun 1. Marijuana, cannabis: A slang or street name for the dried flowers, leaves, stems, and seeds of the Cannabis sativa or Cannabis indica plant, used for its psychoactive effects. - He was caught with a bag of sens. - The police found several grams of sens in the vehicle.

Usage Notes

• Register: The word "sens" is informal slang. It is primarily used in casual, spoken contexts, particularly within certain subcultures. It is not appropriate for formal, academic, or legal writing.
• Context: It is typically used as a mass noun (like "water" or "sand") and does not commonly take a plural form. You would say "some sens" or "a lot of sens," not "sens-es."

Examples

• As a direct object:
  • They smoked sens behind the building.
  • Do you know where to buy sens around here?
• With quantifiers:
  • He sold a small amount of sens.
  • The dealer had high-quality sens.

Advanced / Figurative Usage

• As a metonym for the drug culture: In very specific contexts, "sens" can be used to refer broadly to the activity or culture surrounding marijuana use.
  • He's deep into the sens scene. (Implies involvement with marijuana culture.)

Variants and Related Words

• Sense (noun): This is a completely different, standard English word meaning "a faculty by which the body perceives an external stimulus" (e.g., sight, smell) or "a feeling or perception." It is crucial not to confuse "sens" (slang) with "sense" (standard English).
• Weed, pot, grass, ganja, herb, Mary Jane: Other common slang synonyms for marijuana.

Synonyms

• Marijuana: The most common standard term.
• Cannabis: The formal botanical and legal term.
• Pot: Very common informal synonym.
• Weed: Very common informal synonym.

Idioms and Fixed Phrases

Note: "Sens" itself does not commonly appear in widely recognized idioms. The following are idioms related to the concept it represents (marijuana). - To blow smoke: Literally, to exhale smoke from marijuana; figuratively, to deceive or boast. - He's just blowing smoke; he doesn't know what he's talking about. - To get high: To become intoxicated from using a drug like marijuana. - They wanted to get high on sens.

Noun

1. street names for marijuana