vegetables
n.pl.— «“Hey Afroman!” a student shouted into the rapper/singer’s dressing room window after the show, “I got a fat sack of headies for ya. You gonna let us in?” They must’ve known that Afroman had to ditch his “vegetables,” as he calls them, while being pulled over on the way to Burlington.» —“Q & A” in Unversity of Vermont Vermont Cynic (Burlington) Mar. 27, 2007. (source: Double-Tongued Dictionary)
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