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