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toke
 
PRONUNCIATION:  tk
NOUN: Slang A puff on a cigarette, marijuana cigarette, or pipe containing hashish or another mind-altering substance.
TRANSITIVE & INTRANSITIVE VERB:Inflected forms: toked, tok·ing, tokes
To puff or smoke (a marijuana cigarette, for example) or to engage in such activity.
ETYMOLOGY:Perhaps from Spanish toque, a hit, a turn, from tocar, to touch, from Vulgar Latin *toccre.
 
 
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