What is the meaning of YEN. Phrases containing YEN
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heroin in pill form
Heroin in pill form
[from English slang yen-yen, the opium habit, based on Cantonese in-yan (in, opium + yan, craving); since the 1800s] any strong craving
Opium
a penny (1d particularly, although also means a decimal penny, 1p). Yennep is backslang. Backslang evolved for similar reasons as cockney rhyming slang, i.e., to enable private or secret conversation among a particular community, which in the case of backslang is generally thought initially to have been street and market traders, notably butchers and greengrocers. Backslang essentially entails reversing the sound of the word, not the strict spelling, as you can see from the yennep example. Yennep backslang seems first to have appeared along with the general use of backslang in certain communities in the 1800s.
Opium wine
opium
Yenti is slang for a shrewish woman, a gossip, a crone.
  A Penny. (Cockney Back-slang)
Marijuana
Yellow Eyed Nigger. These are Blacks, usually male, that due to a life of hard substance abuse have the whites of their eyes turn a hepatitis yellow.
Opium
Yenta is slang for a shrewish woman, a gossip, a crone.
Yen sleep is slang for a trance brought on by smoking opium.
opium
Yen shee is slang for opium.
marijuana
money. Originated in the 1800s from the backslang for penny. See yennep.
Restless, drowsy state after LSD use
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The unit of value and account in Japan. Since Japan's adoption of the gold standard, in 1897, the value of the yen has been about 50 cents. The yen is equal to 100 sen.
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A silicate of iron and lime occurring in black prismatic crystals; -- also called ilvaite.
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To throw; to cast.
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See Yenite.
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