Dictionary

woolie en · NOUN

Etymology

From wool + -ie.

Meanings

1. (slang) A marijuana cigarette or cigar laced with crack cocaine.
   • Spent some bank, I got a high powered jum / Rolled up the woolie, and I watched Colombo 1986 November 6, “The New Style”, in Licensed to Ill, performed by Beastie Boys:
   • Me and a lot of my crew smoked woolies, a mixture of coke and weed packed into a blunt. At first it was some fly shit to be doing, some baller shit, because you needed money for the weed and the crack, so it was like rich man shit. Soon, though, some dudes couldn't kick the habit and got turned out. 2018, U-God [Lamont Hawkins], Raw: My Journey Into the Wu-Tang, New York, N.Y.: Picador, →ISBN, page 105:
   • But when Ready Ron spoke of the great high I could get from a "woolie," the "new thing on the block," he didn't tell me how differently it would affect my life. 2002, Smokey D. Fontaine, E.A.R.L.: The Autobiography of DMX, New York, N.Y.: HarperEntertainment, published 2003, →ISBN, page 93:
   • "That's my word, God," he said, confirming my assumption. "You remember that kid that used to be a worker for us, but kept coming up short on his packs?" ¶ "Who, that nigga that started smoking woolies, and shit?" 2004, Michael Baptiste, Cracked Dreams, Bowie, M.D.: Strebor Books International LLC, →ISBN, page 96:
2. (US, alt-of, alternative) Alternative form of woolly (“a sweater or similar garment made of wool”).
   alt of woolly
   • I'm a pushover for an innkeeper who calls out as you're leaving for a walk on the beach, "Better take a woolie with you, do!" 1986, Julianne Belote, Guide to the Recommended Country Inns of the West Coast: California, Oregon, Washington, Chester, C.T.: The Globe Pequot Press, →ISBN, page 113:
   • Cold up there, y'know, on them mountain peaks. Brrr! Wouldn't want to be stuck up there wivout a woolie or five.' 2007, Fiona Dunbar, Toonhead, London: Orchard Books, →ISBN, page 111:
   • "Did you truly sew up his head?" ¶ "I did." Cradog nodded. "Started out mendin' sails for Arthfael, workin' as a boatswain. I can darn a woolie like a spinster." 2015, D. Wallace Peach, Eye of Fire, Maynard, A.R.: Mockingbird Lane Press, →ISBN, page 299:
   • He threw a woolie on his head and pulled it down to his ears as best as he could over his thick locs. 2018, Paula Chase, Dough Boys, New York, N.Y.: Greenwillow Books, →ISBN, page 174:
   • Nicky yawned, shivered a little. She should have a cardigan, he thought; her flesh was goose-pimpled. "You're cold. Can't you go and get a woolie?" ¶ "Why should I? I'm not cold. Might go for a swim in a minute." 1995, Lin Summerfield, Taken by a Stranger, New York, N.Y.: Walker and Company, →ISBN, page 10:

Forms

Synonyms

wooler · wool