toke
/təʊk
/informal
noun
A pull on a cigarette or pipe, typically one containing cannabis.The last thing she did before she pulled down the bag was take one last toke on the cigarette....
- That's why the US Supreme Court won't risk the health of dying cancer patients with a few tokes of physician-prescribed pot.
- Around our way its always the baseball capped teenagers who blatantly smoke it in the street and also don't find much time between tokes for schooling.
verb [no object]
Smoke cannabis or tobacco: he muses while toking on a cigarette [with object]: we toke some grass...
- Probe for the source of this stifled mirth, and you'll find out that on April 20th many spend the day toking, smoking, sparking it, getting blunted, and taking a few to the head.
- As the sketch began, we were treated to the sight of various middle-management types snorting lines of cocaine, toking on joints and shooting up smack.
- I grabbed a spliff and we all started toking on it.
Derivatives
toker
- If he has his way, Friday night tokers will no longer be fired for failing Monday morning drug tests.
- To unite not just these two tabloids but also the crusty old broadsheet behind the tokers and dope smokers of Britain was an astonishing achievement.
- And it's not just pot-focused publications that have remarked on Vancouver's popularity as a haven for tokers.
Origin
1950s: of unknown origin.
Rhymes
- Highness-ship
- high noon
- high-nosed
- high note
- high-occupancy vehicle
- high-octane
- highpad
- high-paid
- high-pass
- high-paying
- high-performance
- high-pitch
- high-pitched
- high places
- high point
- high pole
- high polymer
- high post
- high-power
- high-powered
- high pressure
- high-price
- high-priced
- high priest
- high priestess