Balloon room
balloon room
noun phrase
A room where marijuana is smoked; Beat Pad
[1960s+ narcotics; probably because one gets high in such a place]
Historical Examples
I arrived in good time and was told (I fancied rather contemptuously) that the contest was to come off in “the balloon room.”
Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 93, November 19, 1887 Various
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