khat
A shrub, Catha edulis, whose leaves are used as a mild stimulant when chewed or brewed as tea; also a drug produced from this plant.
“They are chewing on khat, a small serrated, bitter leaf with remarkable stimulative properties. […] One of the great things about khat[…] is that after a good chew you need to do something—walking, running, chopping wood, vigorously reciting a poem, throwing a grenade, anything that requires boldness and physical initiative.”
“Of course he was an amateur of quat – hashish – which delighted the cops.”
“‘And skinny Arab beggars who chew qat all day long to kill their appetites and get high on the weed.’”
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From Arabic قَات (qāt).
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