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So Vicky goes to techno with Kevin and Angela, splits a spliff on the fire escape with Jen, buys a zhizha of a mansion and a luxury car and a set of fancy silverware, ideates urn campaigns, replies to emails, writes presentation decks.—Literary Hub, 16 Mar. 2026 For two years now, Gov. White Boots has been hell bent on making sure not a single spliff gets lit in his Sunshine State.—Pat Beall, Sun Sentinel, 23 Jan. 2026 There was a synergy, too, between the spliff and the shelter of the cathedral steps.—Lillian Fishman, New Yorker, 4 May 2025 Of playing the harmonica onstage in Kingston in 1975, when the Wailers warmed up for Marvin Gaye; of the Wailers’ first New York appearance, in 1973, at Max’s Kansas City, opening for an up-and-comer named Bruce Springsteen; of smoking a spliff with Marley’s mother, in Delaware.—Nick Paumgarten, The New Yorker, 7 Oct. 2024 See All Example Sentences for spliff