"green out" meaning in English

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Noun

Forms: green outs [plural]
Etymology: From the association of marijuana with the colour green. Head templates: {{en-noun}} green out (plural green outs)
  1. Alternative form of greenout Tags: alt-of, alternative Alternative form of: greenout Derived forms: greened-out [adjective], greenout [noun]
    Sense id: en-green_out-en-noun-rc56RTBH

Verb

Forms: greens out [present, singular, third-person], greening out [participle, present], greened out [participle, past], greened out [past]
Etymology: From the association of marijuana with the colour green. Head templates: {{en-verb|*}} green out (third-person singular simple present greens out, present participle greening out, simple past and past participle greened out)
  1. (slang) To feel unwell or get sick as a result of using an excessive amount of cannabis. Tags: slang Categories (lifeform): Marijuana
    Sense id: en-green_out-en-verb-2lDfuXGq Disambiguation of Marijuana: 14 86 Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English phrasal verbs with particle (out) Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 21 79 Disambiguation of English phrasal verbs with particle (out): 29 71

Inflected forms

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          "text": "Grinspoon finishes with some sage advice on the best way to avoid greening out: \"Keep the doses low and know yourself. If it happens to you, try to do a postmortem on what happened, like: 'Was there alcohol involved? Was there nicotine involved?' Was I overtired? Did I take five puffs when I usually take two puffs?'\"",
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          "text": "Either way, by the middle of our conversation, she knew about how I woke up crying the night before because I dreamed of a mischief of rats living under my bed, that I'm in my \"I-love-men era,\" how I’m grateful that I greened out on edibles and dissociated for two weeks because I think that it was the catalyst for my ego death […]",
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