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chase
verb- to vigorously pursue a person responsible for some matter and who can achieve a specific result, such as the completion of a piece of work or the provision of urgently needed documents UK, 1958
A variant “chase up.” - And it means getting administrators from Auckland to Dublin to chase up companies which fail to put the right information on the right documents–or which just don’t bother with paperwork at all. — Guardian, 19 September 2001
- in poker, to play against an opponent’s superior hand US
- — Irwin Steig, Common Sense in Poker, p. 183, 1963
- to smoke any drug UK, 1998
An abbreviation and broadening of the meaning of CHASE THE DRAGON
▶ chase the bag
to engage yourself in a near constant search for drugs to buy US- — William D. Alsever, Glossary for the Establishment and Other Uptight People, p. 5, December 1970
- — Geoffrey Froner, Digging for Diamonds, p. 16, 1989
▶ chase the dog
to loaf on the job US- — Jerry Robertson, Oil Slanguage, p. 37, 1954
▶ chase the dragon
to inhale heroin smoke, especially from heroin burnt on a piece of aluminium foil US, 1961- — David Maurer and Victor Vogel, Narcotics and Narcotic Addiction, p. 396, 1973
- — Geoffrey Froner, Digging for Diamonds, p. 16, 1989
- Two Iranians sat on phallic bolsters, moodily chasing the dragon[.] — Will Self, The Sweet Smell of Psychosis, p. 58, 1996
- — Angela Devlin, Prison Patter, p. 36, 1996
- It was well known that Binion liked to “chase the dragon” or smoke heroin. — Jeff German, Murder in Sin City, p. 120, 2001
- [T]he Central Drugs Squad boasted a Chinese Dragon as its emblem, based on the famous phrase “chasing the dragon,” where addicts sniff the swirling smoke of burning heroin[.] — Duncan MacLaughlin, The Filth, p. 138, 2002
- Shaun [Ryder] chased the dragon. — Tony Wilson, 24 Hour Party People, p. 192, 2002
▶ chase the ghost
to smoke more and more crack cocaine in pursuit of the euphoria of the user’s first crack experience US- When the drugs ran out, he would jump into his van, fumbling through his wallet and glove box for enough money to find his next fix. Then he would drive to his dealer’s house downtown. “They call it chasing the ghost,” said Shaver. — Chicago Tribune, p. C10, 15 February 2007
▶ chase the kettle
to use drugs US- — Anna Scotti and Paul Young, Buzzwords, p. 130, 1997
▶ chase the nurse; chase the white nurse
to become addicted to morphine US- — Jay Robert Nash, Dictionary of Crime, p. 62, 1992
▶ chase the tiger
to smoke heroin UK- — Robert Ashton, This Is Heroin, p. 208, 2002
▶ chase your losses
when losing at gambling, to bet more and more and with less discretion in an increasingly frustrating attempt to win back what has been lost US- — Christopher Cavanaugh, AA to Z, p. 67, 1998
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