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Phr V puff away puffs, puffing, puffed puff away informal to smoke a cigarette or a pipeusually in continuous tensesShe sat there, puffing away at her cigarette.
puff away informal to smoke a cigarette, pipe etc: Richard Gourlain has been puffing away for 35 years. Nate just puffed away calmly on his pipe.■ SIMILAR TO: smoke
(redirected from puff away)puff away (at something)To continuously take brief inhalations of, from, or out of something, such as a cigarette, cigar, pipe, etc. He hunched over the typewriter, puffing away at the cigarette while he tried to come up with an idea. My grandfather always used to sit on the sofa with his pip after dinner, puffing away like a little human chimney. puff in. to get drunk. Those guys go out and puff every Friday night. |