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🫁 A fume inhaler 😮‍💨 A heavy breather 😠 An upset person
huffer

huffer

1 9.9
A person who breathes in chemical fumes to get high
  • noun
  • /ˈhʌfər/
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translation icon : inhalador
  • He was a known huffer in the neighborhood, often seen with a can of spray paint in hand.

Examples

  • During the outreach program, volunteers warned about the dangers faced by a huffer who abuses inhalants.

  • Kids call him a huffer—a gluesniffer.

    Fiction book (1999)

  • The police found a group of teenagers, one of whom was a huffer, inhaling substances behind the school.

Synonyms

glue sniffer
vshuffer
  • NSFW
1 9.5

A person who breathes in glue fumes to feel high

is broader, inhaling various chemical fumes like glue or paint to get high

Antonyms

abstinence
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63 6.4

Choosing not to do things like drinking alcohol or having sex

sobriety
49 4.6

A state of not drinking alcohol or using drugs

How Addicted

addict
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316 4.3
huffer
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1 9.9
user
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86 7.5

Surface Forms

huffer singular
huffers plural

Morphology

huffer = huff (semi-transparent) = huff + er

Formally regular (huff + -er), but this sense relies on slang usage ('to huff' = to inhale solvents) that learners who only know the basic senses may not infer.

Etymology

Huffer for someone who inhales glue or paint comes from the slang huff, meaning 'to breathe in fumes'. So a huffer is a person who breathes in these chemicals to get high.