grifo

Related to Spanish grifa.

grifo (uncountable)

1. (slang) Cannabis.
   • 1972, United States. Commission on Marihuana and Drug Abuse, Marihuana: a Signal of Misunderstanding, page 484:

     […] the smoking in cigarettes or pipes of marihuana or grifo. Its use is as demoralizing as the use of narcotics. Smoking grifo is quite prevalent along the Oregon Short Line Railroad; and Idaho has no law to cope with the use and spread […]

   • 2017, Marcelo Mendoza, Robert L. Barnes, El Gato Negro: Escaping Thirteen Deaths, volume IV, page 657:

     The operator was a man who liked to smoke grifo. Just my luck that day, my friend backpack happened to have a good supply of what I needed to sell to him.

• Frigo

From Spanish grifo.

• IPA^(key): /ˈɡɾipo/, [ˈɡɾi.po]
• Hyphenation: gri‧po

grifo

1. faucet; tap

Common Romance.

• IPA^(key): [ˈɡrifo]
• Rhymes: -ifo
• Hyphenation: gri‧fo

grifo (accusative singular grifon, plural grifoj, accusative plural grifojn)

1. griffin

Latin grȳphus, gryps, from Ancient Greek γρύψ (grúps).

• IPA^(key): /ˈɡri.fo/
• Rhymes: -ifo
• Hyphenation: grì‧fo

grifo m (plural grifi)

1. griffin
2. snout

• grifone

• forgi, frigo, frigo-, grofi

Borrowed from Latin gryphus.

grīfo m

1. griffin

• Middle High German: grīfe
  • German: Greif

 

 grifo on Portuguese Wikipedia

 

From Old Galician-Portuguese grifo, from Latin grȳphus, gryps, from Ancient Greek γρύψ (grúps).

• Rhymes: -ifu
• Hyphenation: gri‧fo

grifo m (plural grifos)

1. (fantasy) griffin
2. (heraldry) griffin
3. Griffon Vulture (Gyps fulvus)
4. monkey wrench

• hipogrifo

grifo

1. first-person singular present indicative of grifar

Borrowed from Late Latin grȳphus, from grȳps, borrowed from Ancient Greek γρύψ (grúps).

• IPA^(key): /ˈɡɾifo/ [ˈɡɾi.fo]

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• Rhymes: -ifo
• Syllabification: gri‧fo

grifo m (plural grifos)

1. tap, faucet (device used to dispense liquids)
2. (Peru) petrol station, garage, filling station, gas station, service station

   Synonyms: gasolinera, estación de servicio, (Chile) bencinera, (Mexico) gasolinería, (Colombia, Costa Rica, Chile, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, Panama, Venezuela) bomba

3. griffin
4. (heraldry) griffin

• Chavacano: grifo
• → Aymara: grifo
• → Cebuano: gripo
• → Hiligaynon: gripo
• → Kapampangan: gripu
• → Maguindanao: gulipu
• → Maranao: giripo
• → Pangasinan: gripo
• → Quechua: grifu
• → Sambali: gripo
• → Tagalog: gripo
• → Tausug: giripu

grifo (feminine grifa, masculine plural grifos, feminine plural grifas)

1. (colloquial) intoxicated (by alcohol, cannabis)

• Joan Coromines, José A[ntonio] Pascual (1984) “grifo”, in Diccionario crítico etimológico castellano e hispánico [Critic Castilian and Hispanic Etymological Dictionary] (in Spanish), volume III (G–Ma), Madrid: Gredos, →ISBN, page 213

• “grifo”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.7, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2023 November 28