fog, n. — Green’s Dictionary of Slang

fog n.

1. (UK Und.) smoke.

1728		Defoe Street Robberies Considered 32: Fog, Smoak.
1737, 1759, 1760, 1776		Bailey Universal Etym. Eng. Dict.
1785, 1788, 1796		Grose Classical Dict. of the Vulgar Tongue.
1809		G. Andrewes Dict. Sl. and Cant.
1811		Lex. Balatronicum.
1823		‘Jon Bee’ Dict. of the Turf, the Ring, the Chase, etc.
1835		G. Kent Modern Flash Dict.
1848		Flash Dict. in Sinks of London Laid Open.
1859		Matsell Vocabulum.

2. (US Und.) shooting.

1949

Monteleone Criminal Sl. (rev. edn).

fogmatic

see separate entries.

fog-bound (adj.)

1. slightly drunk.

1984

Partridge DSUE (8th edn) 415/2: earlier C.20.

2. (US) confused, dazed, infatuated.

1930		J.A. Russell ‘Colgate University Sl.’ in AS V:3 238: Fog-bound: to be in a dreamy state. ‘Joe is fog-bound most of the time.’.
1935		E. Anderson Hungry Men 101: I’m getting fogbound over you.

fog-cutter (n.)

foghorn (n.)

see separate entry .

Fogland (n.)

see separate entry .

fog in (v.)

(UK society) to see a place by accident; to achieve one’s object by accident.

1909

fog out (v.)

see separate entries.

in the fog (adj.)