muggle

Etymology

Definitions

1. 1

   Marijuana.

   • The boy said he had been in the habit of smoking something which youthful friends called "muggles," a childish name for marihuana.
   • While marijuana was still legal in New York, businessmen wanted to package Mezz [Mezzrow]'s muggle and turn it into a high-powered criminal enterprise. While tempted, Mezz rejected those efforts, as well.
2. 2

   A marijuana cigarette

   A marijuana cigarette; a joint.

   • “[...] Eddie, what is this cigarette? It tastes a bit like opium.” / “It’s a ‘muggles’, kid—Mex marijuana; it won’t hurt you any if you don’t inhale too deeply, but you’ll pass out if you do. [...]”
3. 3

   Alternative letter-case form of Muggle.

   • The magical and the muggle are separated by a river, wide and deep. I could see across, but I couldn't get across, [...].
   • As it was nearing Halloween, we were able to join a potions class where we could change liquids into myriad colours with the addition of substances like dragon spit (muggle’s lemon juice).
   • There's another guy playing [Bob] Dylan as a formal poet facing some kind of muggle inquisition, but this is the movie's briefest and least consequential thread.
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   1. 4

      To deface, destroy, or remove a geocache.

      • Okay, September 3. That was just last Monday—Labor Day—so the geocache had been muggled sometime during the past week.
      • Stolen or vandalized geocaches are termed "muggled" or "plundered".
      • We returned the cache to its original place and left it just as we'd found it. If a cache is interfered with, it's deemed to have been "muggled" and this is severely frowned upon by the Geochaching^([sic]) community.
   2. 5

      Often followed by along

      Often followed by along: to live or work in an unorganized and unplanned way; to muddle along.

      • And zo thay muggled along, 'till tha volks all begun to make giame on them.
      • I might have a made out to muggle along if so be Mister Jolly would a rised my wages, or the Union could a kept on taken care o' this last poor little un, till sich time as I might a married some'un to keep the childern tidy; [...]
      • She might truly be said "to muggle along;" everything in her house was in the greatest state of confusion, and, it must be added, dirt.
   3. 6

      A person who has no magical abilities.

      • The magical and the muggle are separated by a river, wide and deep. I could see across, but I couldn't get across, [...].
      • Once again, THE magic-working Karmidee, marginalized by THE Muggle-ish Normals, are threatened by a coup in THE city's government [...]
      • In her second outing as a witch — the first being Practical Magic (1998) — Nicole Kidman plays Isabel, a witch who's trying to settle down to the Muggle life of a suburban housewife.
   4. 7

      A person who lacks a particular ability or skill

      A person who lacks a particular ability or skill; a non-specialist; (also) a person who is not a member of a group; an outsider or cowan.

      • This video game won’t appeal to muggles.
      • [...] I have finally worked out that the word ECNALUBMA in back-to-front writing translates as 'get out of my way, you Muggle motorist'.
      • Some activists might know little of this ‘exterior’, such is their facility to move between activist spaces and places without having to encounter the ever-increasingly one-dimensional world in which the ‘muggles’ live.

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