"chase the dragon" meaning in English

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Verb

Audio: en-au-chase the dragon.ogg [Australia] Forms: chases the dragon [present, singular, third-person], chasing the dragon [participle, present], chased the dragon [participle, past], chased the dragon [past]
Etymology: Calque of Cantonese 追龍/追龙 (zeoi¹ lung⁴), a slang phrase of Cantonese origin from Hong Kong. "Chasing" refers to the careful movement of the liquid in order to keep it from coalescing into a single, unmanageable mass. Etymology templates: {{calque|en|yue|追龍|tr=zeoi¹ lung⁴}} Calque of Cantonese 追龍/追龙 (zeoi¹ lung⁴) Head templates: {{en-verb|*}} chase the dragon (third-person singular simple present chases the dragon, present participle chasing the dragon, simple past and past participle chased the dragon)
  1. (slang) To inhale the vapour from heated morphine, heroin, oxycodone or opium that has been placed on a piece of foil. Tags: slang Categories (topical): Recreational drugs
    Sense id: en-chase_the_dragon-en-verb-a~vbho8D Disambiguation of Recreational drugs: 75 25 Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English entries with topic categories using raw markup, English terms with non-redundant non-automated sortkeys Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 72 28 Disambiguation of English entries with topic categories using raw markup: 71 29 Disambiguation of English terms with non-redundant non-automated sortkeys: 73 27
  2. (idiomatic) To chase after the promise of a continually fulfilling high from an addictive substance. Tags: idiomatic
    Sense id: en-chase_the_dragon-en-verb-KRJ-JyQC

Inflected forms

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