vape

American  

[veyp] / veɪp /

noun

1. an e-cigarette for the delivery of nicotine in a vapor, or a similar device for inhaling cannabis, LSD, and certain other easily vaporized drugs; a vape pen.

2. an act or period of vaping.

   It took a few vapes to get used to it.

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verb (used with or without object)

vaped, vaping

1. to draw in and exhale the vapor from (the substance in an e-cigarette or similar device).

   In many places you are allowed to smoke or vape medical cannabis anywhere in public.

   Fully charged, the device allows you to vape all day.

Other Word Forms

• vaper
  noun

Etymology

Origin of vape

Coined in 1979 by U.S. entrepreneur Brenda Coffee, physician Norman Jacobson, and inventor Jon Philip Ray; shortened from vapor ( def. ) or vaporize ( def. )

Example Sentences

But Marcus Sexton, chairman of the Independent British Vape Trade Association, argues that the ban has been a success.

From BBC • Sep. 8, 2025

About 3 a.m., a white Mercedes-Benz pulled into the parking lot in front of Cobra Smoke Shop & Vape Store on Euclid Street.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 14, 2023

Vape voters stood out this week among the mostly pro-Trump demonstrators who lined the road to the president’s Mar-a-Lago Club in Palm Beach, Florida, where he and his family are spending the holidays.

From Washington Times • Jan. 1, 2020

The retailers included in the settlement are Henley Vaporium, which has headquarters in Manhattan; Beyond Vape, a California-based seller with three stores in New York; Rocket Sheep, a manufacturer; and ECig Distributors, an online retailer.

From New York Times • Jun. 23, 2015

Open Vape is building a visitor-friendly “dream room” in its new downtown offices explicitly modeled after Microsoft’s “Home of the Future,” an interactive concept home on the computer company’s Redmond, Wash., campus.

From Slate • Jan. 9, 2014