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Word: chicharra (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1943-1943
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Usage:

...after a while to produce a light jag. The smoker is then said to be "high" or "floating." When he has smoked a reefer down to a half-inch butt, he carefully conserves it in an empty match box. In this condition it is known, in Mexican, as a chicharra, or in English, as a "roach...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: The Weed | 7/19/1943 | See Source »

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