huffer

huffer

slang Someone who inhales the fumes of a glue or solvent in order to feel intoxicated. Huffers try to get high on whatever they find in their parents' garage, often with lethal results.
Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.

huffer

(ˈhəfɚ)
n. a person (teenager) who inhales glue vapors or some other solvent for a high. (Drugs.) The age of the huffers has come to an end. Now they start out on crack.
McGraw-Hill's Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions
See also:
  • be as high as a kite
  • get stupid
  • (as) high as the sky
  • (as) high as a kite
  • be out of (one's) face
  • drunk and disorderly
  • out of (one's) face
  • out of (one's) skull
  • out of one’s skull
  • out of your skull
References in periodicals archive
Huffer was a former drummer with 1970s band Mungo Jerry before taking up training between 1978 and 1991.
Horse Racing: Geoff calls time on a memorable race career
Huffer was the drummer with 1970s band Mungo Jerry before taking up training between 1978 and 1991.
Rebel owner salutes retiring Huffer
He's cantering again now and being prepared for the QEII," revealed Huffer.
Horse Racing: Horse Power - My Rebel will come back with a bang; Huffer's colt targets Ascot after injury
And Huffer, who won today's Royal Ascot contest with Persian Heights in 1988, thinks he is better than his last winner and deserves to take his place alongside the great milers of the past.
Horse Racing: Cockney Rebel treble tomake Huffer smile
"This is the best horse I've had anything to do with and I was really confident that he'd win again," said Huffer.
Horse Racing: Crafty Cockney does it again
Huffer said: "That was incredible, just incredible.
Horse Racing: COCKNEY IS ROCK SOLID
A delighted Huffer added: "He was 8lb behind the best before, but he's a few pounds in front of them now I think!
Horse Racing: REBEL ON SONG IN THE GUINEAS
NEW ORLEANS -- The intentional inhalation of products containing methanol, such as carburetor cleaner and windshield washer fluid, can cause significant toxicity--and emergency physicians must keep that in mind when a suspected inhaler, or "huffer," comes into the emergency department.
'Huffing' causing methanol toxicity
Huffer Jr., both of Hot Springs Village, lost a sexual harassment lawsuit filed by a former employee.
Splattered
Just as the pilot cranked the first engine, though, the huffer died.
Stupid chocolate cake
Estrus has been putting out the fine dope for years, and continues with this one, featuring tracks from the likes of DMBQ, the Fallouts, the Knockout Pills, Gas Huffer, the Mummies and plenty of others.
Notes from the underground
paper will be Joel Huffer; previously he was assistant managing editor.
PERSONS
As elementary school kids, Amy(*) and her friends used to laugh at the strange sight of "Huffer." He was a wiry man with long black hair who lived in a rickety cabin on the Standing Rock Reservation in South Dakota.
DANGER: Inhalant Hazards
COCKNEY REBEL trainer Geoff Huffer has scrapped plans to return to the training ranks to head owner Phil Cunningham's new Rebel Racing project in Newmarket, with Dave Morris instead called up to take over the licence for the ambitious new operation.
Huffer misses chance to hold licence at Cunningham yard
I had one of our fellow trainees from the line shack unhook the huffer from the tractor but not before I looked back to make sure it was ready to disconnect.
Spinning my wheels