toke n.2
1. a puff or drag of any kind of cigarette (usu. cannabis), or a pipe.
![[US]](/static/img/flags/us.png "United States") | Vice Trap 41: Sando-o came [...] She held him up a toke. | |
| Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test (1969) 176: Nobody in living memory had ever refused a toke from a joint passed by Angels. | |
| Drugs from A to Z (1970) 241: toak, also toke. (1) a puff of a marijuana cigarette. | |
| Serial 72: Rapping with a guy whose life was one long toke wasn’t her idea of a meaningful relationship. | |
| (con. 1970) 13th Valley (1983) 394: Break out the dew. Them dudes need a toke. | |
![[Aus]](/static/img/flags/aus.png "Australia") | (con. 1959) Up the Cross 94: Chenery was so keen to have his first ever toke. | |
| ‘Nuthin But a G Thang’ 🎵 The selection / Symbolizes dope, take a toke, but don’t choke. | |
![[UK]](/static/img/flags/uk.png "United Kingdom") | Grits 121: Ah can nevur resist a toke. | |
| Guardian Guide 11–17 Aug. 3: He takes a reflective toke on his fag. | |
| Cherry Pie [ebook] [T]he room instantly filled with the thick, wet smell of marijuana. Chloe had a toke. | |
| Lush Life 54: I had a few tokes earlier [...] just to be sociable . | |
| ‘Grassed’ in Crime Factory: Hard Labour [ebook] Kyle [...] took the joint [...] and had a small toke. | |
| Killing Pool 2: I take one last, loving toke on the carlota. | |
| Sellout (2016) 7: I take the most glorious toke ever taken in the history of pot smoking. | |
| Silver [ebook] He takes a couple of cursory tokes. | |
| Opal Country 473: The youth takes a toke on his cigarette. | |
| Man-Eating Typewriter 501: Stanley took a long, gulping toke of kif. |
2. a marijuana cigarette; a pipeful of marijuana.
| Hall of Mirrors (1987) 182: I’ve got my toke in there. | |
| ‘Razorback Sl.’ in AS L:1/2 68: toke n Cigarette, of either tobacco or marijuana. | |
![[Can]](/static/img/flags/can.png "Canada") | Totally True Diaries of an Eighties Roller Queen 🌐 26 Apr. We looked around for some tokes and couldn’t find any so we crashed some squid’s party down the road. | |
| Florida Roadkill 236: Coleman: ‘Pot, grass, weed, dope, hemp, rope, thing, shit, gage, spliff, doobie, joint, number, ganga, blunt, Mary jane, smoke, blow, roach, bone, jay, toke, hit, Bogart. . .’. | |
| Indep. Rev. 3 July 5: A spliff here, a toke there, a joint’s-worth handed over to a friend. |
In compounds
(N.Z. prison) extremely strong marijuana.
![[NZ]](/static/img/flags/nz.png "New Zealand") | Boobslang [U. Canterbury D.Phil. thesis] 131/1: one toke silly n. indica, a strong strain of marijuana. |
In phrases
(US drugs) a gravity pipe, made with a 2-litre (3½-pint) bottle and a pipe bowl.
 | Stoners’ Dict. 🌐 Sink Tokes. [CA] – Gravity bong, made with 2 litre bottle and pipe bowl. |
(US) to smoke marijuana; lit. ‘smoke a smoke’ thus as much f. assonance as accuracy.
| Sacramento Bee (CA) 8 May 2/1: Mary Tyler Moore occasionally smokes a toke. | |
| Fort Worth Star-Telegram (TX) 23 Oct. 15/1: Maybe I’d just smoke a toke of it when I got the craving. |
(US drugs) a hand-held smokeless pipe.
| L.A. Times 5 Dec. 43/3: A young woman [...] bought a $10 pocket-size pipe called a Sneak-a-Toke. | |
| at Marijuanalogues.com 11 Aug. 🌐 The woman searching my bag pulled out a sneak-a-toke and said to me, ‘What’s this?’ As panic raced through my weed-whacked skull, another security guy with a shaved head said to her, ‘It’s a pipe,’ as if it was no big deal. She looked it over again, shrugged her shoulders and put it back in my bag. |