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名詞

green out (plural green outs)

1. Alternative form of greenout
   • 2022 October 7, Jocelyn Solis-Moreira, “Mixing Weed And Alcohol? Crossfading Does This To Your Body”, in Discover Magazine‎:

     Alcohol's role as a diuretic increases the risk for dehydration. Throw in some pot and your risk of dehydration increases, especially if you vomit during a green out.

動詞

green out (third-person singular simple present greens out, present participle greening out, simple past and past participle greened out)

1. (slang, transitive, intransitive) To feel unwell or get sick as a result of using an excessive amount of cannabis.
   • 2013 September 30, Bridget Forbes, “Cocaine, pot used by Winnipeg kids at younger ages”, in CBC‎:

     "I knew maybe four people who had 'greened out' in the cafeteria," said a recent graduate.

   • 2022 April 20, Ross Buchanan, “Why You Sometimes Feel Sick or Vomit After Smoking Weed”, in Vice‎:

     Grinspoon finishes with some sage advice on the best way to avoid greening out: "Keep the doses low and know yourself. If it happens to you, try to do a postmortem on what happened, like: 'Was there alcohol involved? Was there nicotine involved?' Was I overtired? Did I take five puffs when I usually take two puffs?'"

   • 2022 April 29, “Girls and their boobs — in that order”, in Yale Daily News‎:

     Either way, by the middle of our conversation, she knew about how I woke up crying the night before because I dreamed of a mischief of rats living under my bed, that I'm in my "I-love-men era," how I’m grateful that I greened out on edibles and dissociated for two weeks because I think that it was the catalyst for my ego death […]

派生語

• greened-out (adjective)
• greenout (noun)

名詞

greenout (countable and uncountable, plural greenouts)

1. (Antarctica) The sensation caused by seeing plants again after a period in Antarctica.
   • [2001 June 9, Bernadette Hince, “Antarctic Dictionary (transcript)”, in The Science Show‎, Australian Broadcasting Corporation:

     One of my favourites is 'greenout', for which I only found a single quotation, which is the experience you have when you've been in Antarctica which has very little vegetation, no trees or shrubs, not many smells of the vegetation, and you come back after weeks, months or a year or more to a vegetated place and the warm air is blowing off the continent that you're coming towards and you have a 'greenout' - you're overwhelmed by the sensations.]

   • 2008 December 10, Mittlefehldt, David "Duck", “The Antarctic search for meteorites: preparations”, in The Planetary Society blog‎:

     Maybe a trip to the greenhouse will lessen my feeling of greenout when I go north?

2. (slang) A feeling of sickness as a result of consuming excessive amounts of cannabis.
   • 2015 September 25, Jason Wilson, “I tried recipes from the Cannabis Kitchen Cookbook, then I needed a long nap”, in The Guardian‎:

     It [The Cannabis Kitchen Cookbook] also offers constant reminders about dosages and prudent consumption, so that noobs don’t do a Maureen Dowd and abandon pot after a single greenout.

   • [2018 September 10, Dave Dormer, “Why overdose may be the wrong word when it comes to cannabis”, in CBC‎:

     One name gaining popularity is "greenout," which is when someone gets sick after smoking or eating cannabis.]

   • 2019 October 16, Aiza Bhuiyan, Sophie Partridge-Hicks, Gabe Samandi, “UPDATED: Clearing the Air: Addressing The Misconceptions about "E-Cigs"”, in Fordham Observer‎:

     Students were also asked if they had ever witnessed or experienced "negative health effects" due to smoking weed or vaporized THC. These effects were defined as any kind of adverse reaction to inhaling a substance, most commonly reported as asthma attacks, seizures or "greenouts" — an experience where one dissociates from their body, similar to sleep paralysis.

3. (California, road transport, informal) A green sign patch applied to a guide sign.
   • 2012 October 22, Steve Alpert, “I-805 northbound”, in Alpsroads.net‎, retrieved 7 August 2025:

     There's again the greenout for "West," but what would have been greened out underneath "Junction"?

   • 2013 February 13, Michael F. Ballard, “5n-norwalk-blvd-sign”, in Southern California Regional Rocks and Roads‎, retrieved 7 August 2025:

     At Norwalk Blvd, the greenout covers a SR-35 shield.

   • 2020 July 5, Daniel P. Faigin, “Highway Numbering in California: Signing in California/Signing Standards”, in California Highways‎, retrieved 7 August 2025:

     Porcelain-on-steel signs really can't be drilled without rusting, although Caltrans apparently does this often and this is a major cause of overlay plates ("greenout") falling or dangling off of signs.

関連する語

• green out (verb)

参照

• Hince, Bernadette (2000), The Antarctic Dictionary, Csiro Publishing, →ISBN, page 158

アナグラム

• outgreen