wacky tobacky

noun

wacky to·​backy -tə-ˈba-kē 

slang

: marijuana

If the War on Drugs gave us nothing else, it at least provided some enduringly quotable anti-drug ads. An entire generation fondly recalls the TV spot where a dad confronts his son over some wacky tobacky, asking, "Who taught you how to do this stuff?"

—Ezra Dyer, Car and Driver, January 2015

Cops responding to a report of a marijuana farm on the roof of a Brooklyn building didn't find the wacky tobacky they were looking for—just tomato plants, police and witnesses said Wednesday.

—Thomas Tracy, Joseph Stepansky, The New York Daily News, 8 May 2013

Word History

First Known Use

1976, in the meaning defined above

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