to smoke someone's pole
- idiom
- Offensive
- Did you see her smoking his pole last night?
Examples
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She loves to smoke his pole.
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He thought it was hilarious to joke about smoking someone's pole during the game.
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Rumors spread after he was accused of smoking someone's pole for money.
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She overheard them using the phrase smoke someone's pole and found it quite offensive.
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During the party, someone made a crude joke about smoking someone's pole, and it made everyone uncomfortable.
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He was embarrassed when others learned he had been smoking someone's pole in exchange for cash.
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After hearing her friends talk about smoking someone's pole, she realized they were discussing explicit topics.
Synonyms
To use the mouth to give sexual pleasure to another person
To use your mouth to give someone sexual pleasure
Surface Forms
Morphology
smoke + someone's + pole
The literal senses of 'smoke' (inhale/exhale burning material) and 'pole' (a rod) do not yield the sexual meaning 'to perform oral sex on a man'; this is a slang metaphorical usage rather than a compositional combination. A B1 learner who knows the constituent words but has not encountered the expression would not be able to predict this meaning, so it functions as an idiomatic, language-specific phrase.
Etymology
The slang smoke someone's pole may come from a vivid image: smoke suggests using the mouth like you would with a long tube, and pole stands for a man's sexual organ, so the phrase came to mean 'to perform oral sex on a man'.