"flash the ash" meaning in All languages combined

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Verb [English]

Forms: flashes the ash [present, singular, third-person], flashing the ash [participle, present], flashed the ash [participle, past], flashed the ash [past]
Head templates: {{en-verb|*}} flash the ash (third-person singular simple present flashes the ash, present participle flashing the ash, simple past and past participle flashed the ash)
  1. (slang) To give somebody a cigarette. Tags: slang Categories (topical): Smoking Related terms: flash for cash, flash the cash
    Sense id: en-flash_the_ash-en-verb-qBb2G87R Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries
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          "ref": "2015, Richard Blackshire, Newtown Naughty Boy, page 145:",
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        "(slang) To give somebody a cigarette."
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