chase the dragon

短语

发音

AU

词形变化

chased the dragon chases the dragon 三单 chases the dragon chasing the dragon chasing the dragon 现在分词 chased the dragon 过去式 chased the dragon 过去分词

释义与例句

v.
  1. 1.

    To inhale the vapor from heated morphine, heroin, oxycodone or opium that has been placed on a piece of foil.

    俚语
  2. 2.

    To chase after the promise of a continually fulfilling high from an addictive substance.

    习语

词源

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.

来源：wiktionary