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huffing

/ ˈʌɪŋ /

noun

  1. slang.
    the practice of inhaling toxic fumes from glue and other household products for their intoxicating effects
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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Derived Forms

  • ˈܴڴڱ, noun
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It’s not unusual to see participants sweating and huffing, their limbs trembling, at the end of a set.

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And then there’s Fox Business’ Larry Kudlow — once a proud free trader, now just another guy huffing Trump fumes — saying, “Buying cheap goods is not a real prosperity.”

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A third centered on concerns about whether, while relieved of duty in 2015, he’d undertaken policing action when he detained someone who appeared to be huffing gas from an air-conditioning unit near his home.

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“ about the kids? about me?” she says, huffing away in her avatar’s spandex skeleton costume.

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Trump slipped the noose again and was as giddy as a drug addict huffing nitrous oxide, so he doesn’t much care.

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