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what are you smoking

what are you smoking phrase: an ironic or sarcastic response to an absurd or nonsensical statement, suggestion or other action.

Phrase

what are you smoking?

  1. (derogatory, rhetoric, slang) An ironic or sarcastic response to an absurd or nonsensical statement, suggestion or other action.

Questions about what are you smoking

What does what are you smoking mean?
What are you smoking means an ironic or sarcastic response to an absurd or nonsensical statement, suggestion or other action.
What part of speech is what are you smoking?
What are you smoking is a phrase.

Words near what are you smoking in the dictionary

  1. what are friends for
  2. what are the odds
  3. what are you doing
  4. what are you like
  5. what are you looking at
  6. what are you smoking
  7. what are you waiting for
  8. what are your pronouns
  9. what can I do you for
  10. what can I say
  11. what can I tell you

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