this is a weirdly specific poll, but if you are both:
- from a non-UK country where English is at least a reasonably commonly spoken language; and
- are familiar with general slang terms for weed
outside the context of British culture, have you heard the term "spliff" or "zoot" to refer to a joint?
@gsuberland never heard Zoot in this context, and zooted only once (mentioned by a Canadian rapper)
Zoot to me only makes me think of the post war fabric rationing sometimes hilariously oversized “Zoot suit”
@gsuberland I didn’t think l’d ever heard the word zoot, until it occurred to me that the sax player in The Electric Mayhem Band was called Zoot.
Wait…did a bunch of west coast hippies put HIDDEN DRUG REFERENCES into children’s TV?!?? 🤯
@WiteWulf @gsuberland One of the naughty nuns in Monty Python and the Quest for the Holy Grail was called Zoot.
Naughty, naughty Zoot! You shall be spanked!
(scene cuts away with voices receding saying "spank me! spank me!")
@spacehobo @gsuberland I’m struggling to find anything beyond the suggested Italian root here. What am I missing?
@gsuberland spliff was reasonably common slang in where I grew up the same way joint was generally
zoot, I have never heard before
@halcy I suspect zoot might even be somewhat obscure in the UK
it was a common term I heard in the 2010s around the Midlands but I don't think I've ever seen someone use the word online or in media.
@zhenech almost certainly given how common English is as a second language in DE.
the poll is *probably* less relevant if you're from a rural town in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, for example, but otherwise yeah.
@gsuberland
I've heard "zooted" as a synonym for "high". Not in the context of British culture, but the people who used it were from a Commonwealth nation. It didn't seem like a word that was commonly used, even by the people I heard using it.
"Spliff" is pretty commonly used and widely understood. The people who use it tend to have some connection to Jamaican, Rastafarian or reggae culture, so there is a bit of a connection to British culture there through colonialism.
@gsuberland everywhere I've been, 'spliff' specifically refers to a joint rolled with a mix of tobacco and weed
zoot is a verb only
@gsuberland Great now I've got Babylon 5 rattling back in my head again 
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