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• n  an act of forcible exhalation
• v  inhale recreational drugs
  the kids were huffing glue
• v  blow hard and loudly

• THE SWEETEST THING Directed by Roger Kumble In real life, do heterosexual women paw and kiss each other as much as they do in this huffing comedy of sisterhood?.
• With all my spluttering and huffing and puffing, he was sometimes alarmed that I might not make it through the night.
• Weld, after huffing and puffing his way through a 5-K race in Quincy, was overheard telling a supporter as he chugged a bottle of Power-Ade, "It's a dead heat.

• puffing
• snorting
• huff
• snort
• puff
• chuff

News & Articles

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• Huffing Freon from AC units can be deadly
  Teenagers are huffing Freon from air conditioning units to get high, leading to serious health issues and even death.
  June 11, 2013 - KKCO Grand Junction
• Suit settled in alleged 'huffing' death; criminal trial postponed
  A civil suit filed against a Highland Park teen accused of "huffing" a cleaning product before striking a family with a car and killing a 5-year-old girl has been settled for an undisclosed amount, while the trial date in her criminal case has been pushed back for a second time.        
  June 11, 2013 - Chicago Tribune
• Civil suit settled in alleged Highland Park 'huffing' death; criminal trial postponed
  A civil suit filed against a Highland Park teen accused of “huffing” a cleaning product before striking a family with a car and killing a 5-year-old girl has been settled for an undisclosed amount, while the trial date in her criminal case has been pushed back for a second time.        
  June 11, 2013 - Chicago Tribune

Quotes

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• Jack Layton in West Island Chronicle
  No amount of huffing and puffing about more elections this coming winter is going to make people in northern Ontario forget that you sold out their (forestry) jobs,Layton said during a stop in Kenora, Ont.
• Chris Pronger in USA Today
  I jumped over the boards as quick as I could. It was the best thing I could have seen. I don't know how much we had left,said Pronger. "There were a couple of guys huffing and puffing. It's not a better sight to see than that puck go in...
• Chris Richardson in The Age
  Despite all the huffing and puffing from the treasurer that the budget is under threat from the slowdown in the US and elsewhere, high prices for coal and iron ore mean high company profits, which mean higher company tax revenues,Mr...