A small/minimal cover/pretext/justification to undertake an action.
Derived from Genesis 3:7, where Adam and Eve hid their genitals with fig leaves to cover their nakedness.
He doesn't have even a fucking fig leaf to hide behind...
They are clinging to this fig leaf and playing dumb...
To get rear ended.
I was driving and slammed on my breaks so hard I almost got Leafed.
being high on weed
“dude i’m so leafed right now after smoking with Tommy”
To come up short, fail miserably, to shit the bed
"they really Leafed it again didn't they"
When you think you’ve lined up the perfect headshot in any video game, only for the bullet to be stopped by a leaf in the line of fire.
I lined up the perfect shot, and then I got leafed!
To have the potential to be successful, but when the time comes to perform, you fail miserably. See Toronto Maple Leafs.
The Toronto hockey team leafed it again in the playoffs.