blaze, v.² — Green’s Dictionary of Slang

blaze v.²

also blaze up

(orig. US black/drugs)

1. to smoke marijuana; thus as n., marijuana.

1994		P. Baker Blood Posse 67: Rastamen blazed cone-shaped marijuana spliffs.
1997		Da Bomb Summer Supplement 2: Blaze (v.) [...] 3. To smoke marijuana.
1997		Eble Campus Sl. Apr. 1: blaze – marijuana.
1999		Dr Dre ‘Light Speed’ 🎵 Hey, yo whassup? / My name is Dre / Can I blaze some Chronic witchu?
2000		Guardian Rev. 12 May 7: Hip-hop has celebrated the demon weed for so long that blazin’ it is accepted as almost an official part of everyday life.
2003		Dizzee Rascal ‘Cut ’Em Off’ 🎵 I’m not a smoker but I blaze a lot.
2011		J. Cornish Attack the Block [film script] 11: All man ever does is blaze, water them big buds and watch that nature channel.
2012		M. Lacher On the Bro’d 143: I once ate a rancid Arby’s sandwich after blazing and it tasted like the most delicious thing in the world.
2013		Guardian On Line 24 Aug. 🌐 By the naughty Noughties, every one was blazing up.
2019		D. Winslow Border [ebook] [T]hey went up there to blaze up and drink.
2021		Twitter 17 June 🌐 SHOUTOUT EVRY1 WALKIN AROUND LOOKING LIKE THEYVE JUST BLAZED A HENRY.

2. to light a cannabis cigarette.

1997		Da Bomb Summer Supplement 2: Blaze (v.) [...] 2. To light a marijuana joint.
1999		Dr Dre ‘The Next Episode’ 🎵 So blaze the weed up then! / Blaze it up, blaze it up! / Just blaze that shit up nigga.
2000		W. Shaw Westsiders 161: ‘Blaze it up,’ Big Duke orders his son.

3. in fig. use, to ‘set on fire’.

2006

Robbo Ranx 1Xtra 4 Apr. [BBC radio] Blaze the biggest dancehall till midnight.

4. to have sexual intercourse.

1997

Da Bomb Summer Supplement 2: Blaze (v.) 1. To have sex.

5. (US Und.) to shoot at intensely; to shoot dead.

2004		Simon & Alvarez ‘Homecoming’ Wire ser. 3 ep. 6 [TV script] We was blazin’ on them dudes, know what I’m sayin’, we was blazin’.
2012		‘Dutch’ ? (Pronounced Que) [ebook] I blazed three mufuckas in broad daylight!
2015		Section Boyz ‘Trapping Ain’t Dead’ 🎵 I dare a man put a hand on my friend / You can get blazed if you wanna act brave.

blazed (adj.)

1. (drugs) intoxicated by drink or drugs.

1992		Bentley & Corbett Prison Sl. 77: Blazed High on marijuana.
1998		Eble Campus Sl. Nov. 1: blazed – drunk.
1999		New Directions Program 🌐 Marijuana-using adolescents refer to people who are under the influence of marijuana as being: ‘baked’, [...] ‘blazed’.
2006		G. Pelecanos Night Gardener 59: Kids [...] who had begun to drink a little and get blazed had kinda dropped off from playing ball.
2014		C. Eble (ed.) UNC-CH Campus Sl. Spring 2014.

2. (UK gang) shot.

2018-20

T. Thorne (ed.) ‘Drill Slang Glossary’ at Forensic Linguistic Databank 🌐 Blazed — shot.

blaze away (v.) [SE blaze, to burn with the fervour of devotion, excitement, or passion + blaze away, to fire a weapon rapidly]

to work at anything with enthusiasm and energy.

1748		Richardson Clarissa V 49: We would have blazed it away, could we have had timely notice.
1834		W.A. Caruthers Kentuckian in N.Y. I 25: The tune would take a quick turn [...] I used to blaze away at it with the best of ’em.
1835		A.B. Longstreet Georgia Scenes (1848) 60: Then blaze away, my game cocks.
1847		Wilmington Jrnl (MC) 6 Aug. 1/3: ‘Now blaze away!’.
c.1850		F.M. Whitcher Widow Bedott Papers (1883) 46: You used to blaze away about the Baptists turribly.
1865		M.L. Byrn Adventures of Fudge Fumble 39: A keen appetite has no conscience, and I blazed away.
1885		J.S. Borlase Blue Cap, the Bushranger 15/2: Den dey both blazes away.
1887		W.S. Gilbert ‘An Unfortunate Likeness’ Fifty ‘Bab’ Ballads 199: ‘Sir,’ said the grand Shakesperian boy / (Continuing to blaze away).
1905		R. Beach Pardners (1912) 91: ‘Blaze away,’ says she.
1907		N.Y. Tribune 15 Sept. 11/3: Oh, let him blaze away [...] I ain’t one to bar prayin’. Fire ahead!
1915		Day Book (Chicago) 25 May 23/2: ‘Maud [...] there are words I burn to say!’ [...] ‘All right, Charlie; blaze away’.
1920		E. Pound in Witemeyer Pound/Williams Correspondence (1996) 42: ANYHOW blaze away, and more power to your elbow.
1930		C. Sandburg letter 31 Dec. in Mitgang (1968) 275: You blaze away at the theme the way it looks to you.
1948		C. Day Lewis Otterbury Incident 165: They were to go on blazing away, while he himself got in again by the skylight.
1950		Western Morn. News 7 June 3/7: [headline] West Baptist urged to ‘Blaze Away’.

blaze on (v.) [? SE blaze away/out, to fire continuously]

(US black) to attack or knock down without warning.

1980

E. Folb Runnin’ Down Some Lines 106: Terms like to fire, to blaze on, [...] mean just that – to do unto others before they do you.