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🧳 To pull with effort 😩 To move slowly 👗 Opposite-sex clothes ⏳ To last too long 🐢 A hindrance 🖱️ To move on screen 💪 A hard pull 🚬 An inhale 🚬 To inhale smoke
drag

drag

18 7.1
A short strong breath of smoke from a cigarette or pipe
  • noun
  • /dræɡ/
translation icon : calada
  • Josephine took a slow drag on her cigarette and exhaled a cloud of smoke.

Examples

  • Joey takes a drag from his cigarette and just nods, with a big grin on his face.

    Fiction book (1995)

  • Jacques takes a deep, satisfying drag and looks at her.

    Fiction book (1996)

  • Can I have a drag of that?

    The Way Back (2020)

  • Could I have a drag of that ?

    Before Sunset (2004)

  • Take a drag of it.

    Five Came Back (1939)

  • The young man takes a drag off of his smoke.

    Fiction book (1994)

  • Terry Silver takes a long, slow drag on his cigarette.

    Fiction book (1993)

  • Paul took a long, deep drag on his cigarette and shrugged at me like.

    Fiction book (1990)

  • Jill takes another drag on the joint, turning her attention to an unfinished sculpture.

    Fiction book (1990)

  • Lal sat up in his chair and took an appreciative drag on his cigarette.

    Academic text (2011)

Synonyms

inhalation
vsdrag
  • Specialized
24 4.1

Breathing air or gas into the lungs

is specific to inhaling smoke from cigarettes or similar smoking devices
puff
vsdrag
22 2.7

A single breath of smoke from a cigarette or pipe

is the same meaning but uses a more technical word for the smoking item
pull
vsdrag
  • Informal
5 7.2

A single breath of smoke from a cigarette or pipe

is the general act of inhaling smoke without slow emphasis

Antonyms

exhalation
6 4.3

Breathing out air from the lungs or the air that you breathe out

Idioms

to drag one's feet
  • Informal
5.5

To be slow on purpose because you do not want to do something

Compounds

main drag
  • Informal
7 5.1

A street in a town where most shops and restaurants are

drag coefficient
  • Specialized
2 8.1

A number showing how easily an object moves through air or water

coefficient of drag
  • Specialized
8.8

A number that shows how much air or water slows an object moving through it

drag-cup motor
  • Specialized
7.8

An electric machine with a cup-shaped metal part that turns around a fixed magnet inside

knock-down-and-drag-out
  • NSFW
8.8

Very violent and intense, often about a fight or argument

How Deep

lungful
2 3.1
drag
18 7.1
puff
22 2.7

Surface Forms

drag singular
drags plural

Etymology

A drag on a cigarette simply means a 'pull' of smoke and comes from the verb drag used like draw to mean 'take in', so a drag is one long inhale.