nose hit

nose hit

1. In the sport of curling, a hit on a stone on the point closest to the shooter. Two well-placed nose hits in a row put the Canadian team in prime position for a third consecutive gold medal.
2. slang The inhalation with one's nostrils of smoke coming from the burning end of a cigarette, especially one filled with marijuana. They said that taking a nose hit would give me a better buzz than smoking regularly, but think they might have just been jerking my chain.
See also: hit, nose
Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.

nose hit

n. marijuana smoke taken through the nose from the burning end of the cigarette. (Drugs.) Wilmer likes to take nose hits.
See also: hit, nose
McGraw-Hill's Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions
See also:
  • square shooter
  • independent
  • independent as a hog on ice
  • turn (one's) nose up at (someone or something)
  • turn nose up at
  • turn your nose up at something
  • nose candy
  • nose job
  • the nose knows
  • blow nose
References in periodicals archive
There almost alcohol with this 14% That big baked pear nose hit you full on, as did a petrol note too while, after a wee swirl, there were matchsticks and banana.
Laura considers herself lucky because her nose hit between the ridge of the attacker's boot, preventing it from breaking.
I was running up stairs, missed the last step went flying across my library, and a small latch on the door stopped my full body weight when my nose hit it.
We had a poor first end, and missed a nose hit for three in the sixth, and that was about it.
Since the standing passengers had to hold on to the metal bars fixed on the ceiling for support, it was an awesome, sometimes nauseating, experience for those whose nose hit somebody's arm pit in the gruelling heat of the day.
However, in the last lap on Turn five, he went off the track but just as he tried to come back, the right wing of his nose hit Tharani's car, which was following closely.
But Javed, giving an eyewitness account, said the aircraft's nose hit the ground as soon as it landed.
civil aviation accident and significant accidents involving other types of transportation, on Tuesday issued an update report that offers a glimpse into what happened in the cockpit of the Boeing 737 minutes before its nose hit the tarmac and the landing gear collapsed, sending it skidding before it came to a halt in a grassy area.
The tri-colored bat was uncommon even before white nose hit, and has since declined by 90 percent.
He grabbed her head and rammed it down and her nose hit the handle.
As a result, the aft end of the external fuel tank hit the LAU-116 installed on station 7, and the nose hit station 9.
Mrs Young added: "My brow and nose hit the top of the tiles and my head came into contact with the side of the bath.
As the buck's nose hit the water, Kent told me to draw my bow, pick a spot, and shoot.
After forcing team Kinnear to a single in the ninth end, skip Ross Whyte made a nose hit in the 10th.
"My nose hit the steering wheel and I am still bruised.