zaza

Definitions

1. Exotic marijuana.
   slang, uncountable
2. A member of an ethnic minority of Iranian origin in eastern Turkey.
3. A parent; a gender-neutral alternative to mama or papa.
   gender-neutral, informal, rare

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Examples

“Having grabbed the torch from the first wave⟳ of Brooklyn drill's innovators, Fivio Foreign is all about the genre's future. The gravelly-voiced rapper took over the second half of 2020 with his viral hit "Big Drip," whose video has a whole Hennessy-brandishing squad smoking zaza in front of a Shake⟳ Shack, of all places — bringing big roll-up-a-Backwoods-on-the-last-car-of-the-subway energy to a part of Brooklyn where the average overpaying tenant probably rides a unicycle to work⟳.”

“Top shelf zaza disrupted my circadian rhythm. I have⟳ seen the Magna Carta, I've seen the Eye of Horus. I was flippin' bricks for Mansa Musa before y'all even became a type⟳-1 civilization.”

“You are your zaza's daughter.”

“A common gender-neutral pronoun that some folks use⟳ is Ze, and my parent name⟳, Zaza, is based on that: Ze+Mama=Zaza. I don't go by mom or mommy, and my wife, who is also genderqueer, uses the parent name⟳ "Mo." It's pretty cute; "Mo and Zaza love⟳ you!"”

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