purples

1. A colour/color that is a dark blend of red and blue; dark magenta.
2. (colour theory) Any non-spectral colour on the line of purples on a colour chromaticity diagram or a colour wheel between violet and red.
3. Cloth, or a garment, dyed a purple colour; especially, a purple robe, worn as an emblem of rank or authority; specifically, the purple robe or mantle worn by Ancient Roman emperors as the emblem of imperial dignity.

   to put on the imperial purple

4. (by extension) Imperial power, because the colour purple was worn by emperors and kings.
5. Any of various species of mollusks from which Tyrian purple dye was obtained, especially the common dog whelk.
6. The purple haze cultivar of cannabis in the kush family, either pure or mixed with others, or by extension any variety of smoked marijuana.
7. Purpura.
8. Earcockle, a disease of wheat.
9. Any of the species of large butterflies, usually marked with purple or blue, of the genus Basilarchia (formerly Limenitis).

   the banded purple

10. A cardinalate.

1. To turn purple in colour.
2. To dye purple.
3. To clothe in purple.

noun

A recreational drug based on cough syrup, popular in the hip-hop community in the southern United States.