glue sniffing

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noun

the inhaling of the fumes of certain kinds of glue for the hallucinogenic or euphoric effect.

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Origin of glue sniffing

An Americanism dating back to 1960–65

OTHER WORDS FROM glue sniffing

glue sniffer, noun

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How to use glue sniffing in a sentence

You see the handwork, the glue, how the people in the agency were working on it.
Frank Gehry Is Architecture’s Mad Genius|Sarah Moroz|October 27, 2014|DAILY BEAST
It is the “glue that holds often flaky single malts together,” as Broom puts it.
Don't Be a Single-Malt Scotch Snob|Kayleigh Kulp|August 9, 2014|DAILY BEAST
Maliki no longer wanted to pay for the glue that kept it there.
Iraq Is Not Our War Anymore. Let It Be Iran’s Problem.|Christopher Dickey|July 17, 2014|DAILY BEAST
She also was handy, hammering nails into walls and using a heat gun to chisel glue off the floor.
The Wonderful Weirdness of Christine McConnell, Queen of Creepy Cookies|Tim Teeman|July 9, 2014|DAILY BEAST

Sniffing Tory conspiracies under every Whitehall bed, ours specially?
Iran’s Top Spy Is the Modern-Day Karla, John Le Carré’s Villainous Mastermind|Michael Weiss|July 2, 2014|DAILY BEAST
There was the same sniffing and scratching as before, and I felt the tent give a little as when wind shakes it.
Three More John Silence Stories|Algernon Blackwood
Watch capered about furiously, taking little swims in the pool and sniffing at all the dear old familiar things.
The Box-Car Children|Gertrude Chandler Warner
"Jefferies' Marine Glue" can be procured at all times, the cost being about sixpence per pound.
Notes and Queries, Number 178, March 26, 1853|Various
One part of marine glue, and two of best red sealing-wax, form a beautiful cement for glass baths.
Notes and Queries, Number 178, March 26, 1853|Various
Another poison is of a pale glue color, which is supposed by Stanley to be made of crushed red ants.
Man And His Ancestor|Charles Morris

British Dictionary definitions for glue sniffing

glue-sniffing

noun

the practice of inhaling the fumes of certain types of glue to produce intoxicating or hallucinatory effects

Derived forms of glue-sniffing

glue-sniffer, noun

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