Dank is slang for good cannabis, especially flower with a strong, pungent aroma. The everyday English meaning is damp, cold and musty.
In practice
When a grower calls a jar dank, they mean pungent and well made. The original meaning is worth remembering, because a genuinely damp or musty smell in flower is a defect: it can mean the buds were dried too slowly, sealed too wet, or have mould. A good cure smells clean and sharp, not like a cellar.
Don't confuse with
- Loud: strong aroma; near-synonym.
- Musty or hay smell: musty points to excess moisture or mould; hay points to drying too fast or bacterial breakdown. Neither is dank in the slang sense, and a cure will never fully fix a bad dry.
A grassy, hay-like aroma in dried cannabis caused by drying too fast, over-drying or bacterial activity; in GenetixBay's view it never fully cures out.Loud is slang for flower with a very strong, room-filling aroma, often implying high quality.Fire is slang for excellent cannabis; it is enthusiasm, not a description of any measurable trait.Gas is slang for a sharp fuel, diesel or solvent-like aroma in cannabis, and by extension for any flower people rate highly.Terps is slang for terpenes, and loosely for a cannabis cultivar's whole aroma and flavour, even though many aroma compounds are not terpenes.
