rizla
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From the Rizla+ brand of rolling papers, coined in 1886 from French riz (“rice”) and Lacroix, referring to the use of rice paper and the inventor's family name.
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
rizla (plural rizlas)
- A rolling paper.
- 1992, “Searching for my Rizla”, performed by Ratpack & Freestylers:
- Now I was standing in the corner / I'm searching for my rizla / I had some marijuana / I needed to get higher
- 1997, Alex Garland, The Beach:
- A slight breeze picked up, sending a few loose rizlas skimming along the sand.
- 1998, Martin C. Strong, The Great Rock Discography:
- Answers on the back of a rizla paper to the usual address.
- 2005, Matthew Fuller, Media ecologies: materialist energies in art and technoculture:
- At the front of the classroom the cadaver of a singer is laid out on a workbench cluttered with Bunsen burners, rizlas, vinyl.