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Meaning of green fairy | Babel Free

Noun CEFR B2

Definitions

  1. Absinthe liquor.
    colloquial, uncountable
  2. A person who supplies medicinal cannabis products illegally.
    New-Zealand, colloquial, uncountable

Equivalents

Deutsch grüne Fee
Français fée verte

Examples

“Absinthe ads like to trade on artists like Van Gogh and Toulouse-Lautrec, as if the history of the green fairy began in the Pigalle neighborhood of 1870s Paris, but wormwood-infused drinks have been around for thousands of years.”
“She used to buy the majority of her medicines from a local green fairy, but when they were busted, her supply line, like that of many other patients, was cut.”

CEFR level

B2
Upper Intermediate
This word is part of the CEFR B2 vocabulary — upper intermediate level.

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