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torch
noun- an arsonist US, 1938
- “Call up North,” Shad said. “Get a real torch artist.” — Carl Hiaasen, Strip Tease, p. 277, 1993
- an act of arson US
- I know who instigated the Utopia torch. — James Ellroy, Brown’s Requiem, p. 109, 1981
- a cigarette lighter US
- — David Claerbaut, Black Jargon in White America, p. 84, 1972
- a handgun US
- — Joseph E. Ragen and Charles Finston, Inside the World’s Toughest Prison, p. 821, 1962: “Penitentiary and underworld glossary”
- marijuana; a marijuana cigarette US, 1977
A conical shape holding fire at the flared end. - — Richard A. Spears, The Slang and Jargon of Drugs and Drink, p. 517, 1986
- — Mike Haskins, Drugs, p. 289, 2003
- a love song or ballad US
- All songs of regret and revenge and love’s bitter grief are “torches.” — Jack Lait and Lee Mortimer, New York Confidential, p. 33, 1948
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