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- noun A
fictional psychoactive substance said to beextracted frombanana peels .
Etymologies
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Coined for a hoax in the Berkeley Barb in 1967, presumably from banana and -ine.
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Examples
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It was believed in the '60s that smoking banana peels released a psychoactive substance called bananadine, which allegedly got you high.
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Supposedly a substance called "bananadine" was there.
Tips for Teens Roger Sutton 2008
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Andy Laties said ... oh. it must be the bananadine I have been smoking all day.
Tips for Teens Roger Sutton 2008
bilby commented on the word bananadine
"Does the Anarchist Cookbook really contain errors?
Yes. Lots of them. A classic error is the recipe for extracting the drug bananadine from banana peels. The flaw is that bananadine does not exist; it was mentioned in the March 1967 Berkeley Barb as a joke but the Anarchist Cookbook took it seriously. (Reference: "Storming Heaven: LSD and the American Dream, p. 336, thanks to Lamont Granquist.)"
- Ken Shirriff, righto.com.
June 2, 2008