zolhttp://www.oed.com/dictionary/zol_n%3Ftab%3Dmeaning_and_usezol, n.
First published 2025

zolnoun

South African colloquial.
  1. 1.
    1946–
    A preparation of the marijuana plant, used as an intoxicating and hallucinogenic drug; esp. a crude preparation of the dried leaves, flowering tops, and stem of the plant, sometimes mixed with tobacco, in a form for smoking.
    1. 1946
      Dagga..laughing skuif..torpedo, aap, zol.
      in E. Partridge, Dictionary of Underworld (1950) 399/1
    2. 1988
      They used to smoke zol, or dope, and jol, or party, but these days they're ‘turned on to free enterprise’.
      R. Malan in Granta Autumn 246
    3. 2004
      An architecture student..asked if I had sampled any zol on my trip... ‘You know,’ he beamed, ‘grass, dope, ganja, green, the sacred herb, skunk.’
      D. Smiedt, Are we there Yet? (2007) xi. 210
    4. 2024
      You might find yourself taking a pull on a bottleneck packed with inferior Cape Town zol in a back alley.
      Mail & Guardian (Johannesburg) (Nexis) 19 April
  2. 2.
    1949–
    A hand-rolled cigarette, esp. one containing marijuana.
    1. 1949
      ‘The tree of knowledge,’ a blue-coat would say, when the zol had gone the rounds for the last time.
      H. C. Bosman, Cold Stone Jug iii. 52
    2. 1968
      He was the only source of the brown paper used for rolling zols. (Horseshoe or Springbok tobacco).
      A. Fugard, Letter September in Notebooks (1983) 176
    3. 1988
      Probably Prince was in the bar of the Club one block away, splitting his arm in the toilets, slipping you zols with both ends tucked up for a rand each, great stuff, Durban Poison.
      S. Gray, Time of our Darkness x. 139
    4. 2014
      No, well, he was smoking zols, drinking like a fish. Talking kak to the other gents.
      M. Fowler & I. Dixon, translation of K. Brynard, Weeping Waters (2018) liv. 277

zol, n. was first published in March 2025.