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"etymology_text": "From weed + man.",
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"ref": "2012, Herbert Lawson III, My Life... My Story You Be the Judge: A Memoir, page 145",
"text": "Sometimes, he would pinch out of the bag, and the guy at the weed house would give him something, and after watching him for a while, he would let me take care of the weed business. The weed man knew who I was so did the guys who were buying.",
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"ref": "2012, John D. McCray, Who Am I, page 140",
"text": "He told me you were his cousin and that he was going to show you the weed man's house, so you could purchase your weed,” I said.",
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},
{
"ref": "2015, Tyrone Pierson, A Gangster & a Baller: A Tale of 2 Big Homies",
"text": "Platinum wants to smoke some weed, so when Snoman is out of the room, he asks Tyreal if he can get him some. Tyreal calls the weed man, & the weed man comes to deliver the sack.",
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"A male drug dealer or dispenser who specializes in cannabis."
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"(slang) A male drug dealer or dispenser who specializes in cannabis."
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"ref": "1947, Minutes of Weed Control Conference - Volumes 1-3, page 29",
"text": "I acted in an advisory capacity to them until they could get a better weed man than I am to help them in their own staff.",
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"ref": "1954, Marcene D. Grimes, State-local Relations in Kansas, page 128",
"text": "Next the weed man pointed out that it was against state law. Several other cases were observed where the weed man could utilize the device of passing the buck to prevent a customer from directing his criticism against the county weed man.",
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"ref": "1974, Proceedings - California Weed Conference - Issues 26-29, page 86",
"text": "Where Industrial Customers have had experience over the years dealing with various Applicators, and have come to know the ones that can be depended upon to live up to their word and the spirit of the contract, the tendency in recent years has been to say — \"OK, you're the weed man, you know your business and we know ours. Here's what we want.\"",
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"ref": "2000, Serving Agriculture and the Environment",
"text": "So how did a “soils man” become a “weed man?”",
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"A man who destroys weeds, especially one who works in agricultural weed suppression."
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"ref": "2012, Herbert Lawson III, My Life... My Story You Be the Judge: A Memoir, page 145",
"text": "Sometimes, he would pinch out of the bag, and the guy at the weed house would give him something, and after watching him for a while, he would let me take care of the weed business. The weed man knew who I was so did the guys who were buying.",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"ref": "2012, John D. McCray, Who Am I, page 140",
"text": "He told me you were his cousin and that he was going to show you the weed man's house, so you could purchase your weed,” I said.",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"ref": "2015, Tyrone Pierson, A Gangster & a Baller: A Tale of 2 Big Homies",
"text": "Platinum wants to smoke some weed, so when Snoman is out of the room, he asks Tyreal if he can get him some. Tyreal calls the weed man, & the weed man comes to deliver the sack.",
"type": "quotation"
}
],
"glosses": [
"A male drug dealer or dispenser who specializes in cannabis."
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],
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"(slang) A male drug dealer or dispenser who specializes in cannabis."
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"ref": "1947, Minutes of Weed Control Conference - Volumes 1-3, page 29",
"text": "I acted in an advisory capacity to them until they could get a better weed man than I am to help them in their own staff.",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"ref": "1954, Marcene D. Grimes, State-local Relations in Kansas, page 128",
"text": "Next the weed man pointed out that it was against state law. Several other cases were observed where the weed man could utilize the device of passing the buck to prevent a customer from directing his criticism against the county weed man.",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"ref": "1974, Proceedings - California Weed Conference - Issues 26-29, page 86",
"text": "Where Industrial Customers have had experience over the years dealing with various Applicators, and have come to know the ones that can be depended upon to live up to their word and the spirit of the contract, the tendency in recent years has been to say — \"OK, you're the weed man, you know your business and we know ours. Here's what we want.\"",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"ref": "2000, Serving Agriculture and the Environment",
"text": "So how did a “soils man” become a “weed man?”",
"type": "quotation"
}
],
"glosses": [
"A man who destroys weeds, especially one who works in agricultural weed suppression."
],
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"weed",
"weed"
],
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"agricultural",
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],
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"suppression"
]
]
}
],
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"word": "weedman"
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