Green’s Dictionary of Slang

blaze v.2

also blaze up
(orig. US black/drugs)

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

[UK]P. Baker Blood Posse 67: Rastamen blazed cone-shaped marijuana spliffs.
[US]Da Bomb Summer Supplement 2: Blaze (v.) [...] 3. To smoke marijuana.
[US]Eble Campus Sl. Apr. 1: blaze – marijuana.
[US]Dr Dre ‘Light Speed’ 🎵 Hey, yo whassup? / My name is Dre / Can I blaze some Chronic witchu?
[UK]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.
[UK]Dizzee Rascal ‘Cut ’Em Off’ 🎵 I’m not a smoker but I blaze a lot.
[UK]J. Cornish Attack the Block [film script] 11: All man ever does is blaze, water them big buds and watch that nature channel.
[UK]Guardian On Line 24 Aug. 🌐 By the naughty Noughties, every one was blazing up.
[US]D. Winslow Border [ebook] [T]hey went up there to blaze up and drink.
Twitter 17 June 🌐 SHOUTOUT EVRY1 WALKIN AROUND LOOKING LIKE THEYVE JUST BLAZED A HENRY.

2. to light a cannabis cigarette.

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

3. in fig. use, to ‘set on fire’.

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

4. to have sexual intercourse.

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

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

[US]Simon & Alvarez ‘Homecoming’ Wire ser. 3 ep. 6 [TV script] We was blazin’ on them dudes, know what I’m sayin’, we was blazin’.
[US]‘Dutch’ ? (Pronounced Que) [ebook] I blazed three mufuckas in broad daylight!
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.

In derivatives

blazed (adj.)

1. (drugs) intoxicated by drink or drugs.

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

2. (UK gang) shot.

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

SE in slang uses

In phrases

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.

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

[US]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.