smirt

present singular third person smirts · participle present smirting · participle past smirted · past smirted

1. IrelandUKintransitiveTo chat up or flirt with (someone) while smoking outside a pub.First known use 2004

   Smirting is believed to have started in Temple Bar, Dublin, in 2004

   2008 July 1, “Unintended consequences of the smoking ban”, in BBC NEWS

   3 more examples

   Smirting - a cross between smoking and flirting - is already a huge hit in Dublin where the ban has been in place for two years

   2006 March 25, “BURNING PASSION IN CIGGIE SHELTERS”, in The Scottish Daily Record

   I have dated three guys that I smirted with, and one of them is now my current boyfriend.

   2007 July 2, Clover Stroud, “Smoke signals: new dating paths?”, in Daily Mail

   As a result, despite the ban, the smoking rate in Ireland has been stuck at around 28% and the expected decline in cigarette consumption never materialized. A new social practice quickly emerged called “smirting”, where young Dubliners smoke and flirt with members of the opposite sex

   2012, GN Connolly, “How Society Treats Smoking”, in Israel Journal of Health Policy Research