Talk:One Toke Over the Line
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Terminology
[edit]Not sure "toke" is well understood — or as time passes, will remain so. In at least its North American heyday, it was understood as one inhalation from a lit cigarette (and especially, one with significant content of marijuana). Presumably a Hispanic-origin term, and also understood in those contexts as a usage of the not uncommon female given name, "Mary Jane" — (probably sometimes hyphenated, or perhaps even conjoined, either with or without capitalization of J.
(Incidentally, that double name —however spaced-and-cased— had earlier referred to a feminine shoe style — which probably became rare, beyond the mandatory (generally 10 to 12) grades of schooling 173.220.230.26 (talk) 06:53, 19 December 2024 (UTC)