blow a cloud

English

Verb

blow 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
  • 1873, John Camden Hotten, The Slang Dictionary
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