Meaning of green fairy | Babel Free

Definitions

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

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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⟳.”

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