greenout
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: 0.00 in modern English
9
Scrabble Score
8
Letters
2
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
The sensation caused by seeing plants again after a period in Antarctica.
Countable; Uncountable
Example Sentences
- "One of my favourites is 'greenout', for which I only found a single quotation, which is the experience you have when you've been in Antarctica which has very little vegetation, no trees or shrubs, not many smells of the vegetation, and you come back after weeks, months or a year or more to a vegetated place and the warm air is blowing off the continent that you're coming towards and you have a 'greenout' - you're overwhelmed by the sensations."
- "Maybe a trip to the greenhouse will lessen my feeling of greenout when I go north?"
- "It [The Cannabis Kitchen Cookbook] also offers constant reminders about dosages and prudent consumption, so that noobs don’t do a Maureen Dowd and abandon pot after a single greenout."
- "One name gaining popularity is "greenout," which is when someone gets sick after smoking or eating cannabis."
- "Students were also asked if they had ever witnessed or experienced "negative health effects" due to smoking weed or vaporized THC. These effects were defined as any kind of adverse reaction to inhaling a substance, most commonly reported as asthma attacks, seizures or "greenouts" — an experience where one dissociates from their body, similar to sleep paralysis."
- "There's again the greenout for "West," but what would have been greened out underneath "Junction"?"