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) (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