An old American slang term for marijuana, most common in the 1930s through the 1950s. 'Mootah' (also spelled 'muggles,' 'reefer,' and a dozen other ways during Prohibition-era jazz culture) was part of a rich underground vocabulary for cannabis that circulated among jazz musicians and their circles. While largely obsolete today, it occasionally surfaces in discussions of cannabis history or period-accurate media set in mid-century America.
The old jazz club memoir mentioned that half the musicians were passing mootah around between sets.
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(US, slang) Marijuana.
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