blow a cloud

English

Verb

blow a cloud (third-person singular simple present blows a cloud, present participle blowing a cloud, simple past blew a cloud, past participle blown a cloud)

  1. (slang, obsolete) To smoke a cigar or pipe.
    • Jack Randall's Scrap-Book
      Let me blow a cloud, or a bender spend
      At the Pig and Tinder-Box nightly.
    • Tom Crib's Memorial to Congress
      A civiller Swell
      I'd never wish to blow a cloud with.

References
  • John Camden Hotten (1873) The Slang Dictionary
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