Meaning of cush | Babel Free

Definitions

1. The cushion, the soft lip around the edge of the table that allows the balls to bounce cleanly.
   colloquial
2. Synonym of cuisse (“armor for the thigh”).
3. Alternative spelling of kush (“marijuana”).
   alt-of, alternative, uncountable
4. The son of Ham, grandson of Noah, and supposed progenitor of the African peoples.
5. A Benjamite mentioned only in the title of Psalm 7.
6. An Iron Age kingdom on the middle Nile, in what is now northern Sudan.

Equivalents

Examples

“"[…]a breast and placket, taces, gorget, a burgonet with a buffe or chin peece," and also "Armour richly quilt and graven consisting of a backe, breast, cushes, a paire of kneecops, gorget, a pair of short taces, one burgonet […]"”

“[…] quissers or cushes covered with cloth of camaca, for the protection of legs and thighs (I. 649); and lastly, a bequest of a targett or shield (II. 657), and of a bokeler covered with plates of silver ...”

“One black field armour unfinished compleate One other field armour unfinished, wanting only a pair of cushes”

““Got caught smoking cush and making out with Franklin Johnson in the memorial garden.” Ugh. This girl has no class. “Did law enforcement press⟳ charges?” Lettie asked, concern⟳ seeping into her voice. Leave⟳ it to Lettie to actually care.”

“You got those cigarettes and cush / You don't ever let⟳ me down”

“[…] there's more life than ice and smoking cush because Christ paid the price for us all so Salvation is available; for there is nothing in the streets that's capable of saving you; death, snitching and prison are your only options[…]”

“[…] smoked crack in a glass pipe or choose⟳ to down play⟳ it and mix⟳ it with some tobacco in a cigarette or some cush[…]”

“Smoking them up and getting high off the few blunts, it was nothing like⟳ when they smoked the purple cush,[…]”

“He loved smoking joints and couldn't handle⟳ blunts. […] I also had him backstage smoking Cush with Jeezy and Will.”

“I couldn't work⟳ with my hands anymore. To make⟳ money I started selling Cush, which was considered to be fake weed. It stopped the pain in my hands. I was addicted to the fake crap. I was smoking more ...”

“It was June of 2015; we were just smoking Cush with my friends as usual when suddenly something hit me hard on the right ... I thought it was nothings serious, I got up and tried to smoke⟳ a gain⟳, but this time it switches up my chest ...”

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