vape

plural vapes

1. Synonym of vaporizer.

   Synonyms: vaporizer

2. metonymicallyAn electronic cigarette.

   I won't buy a vape anytime soon because one may cost up to $20.

   1 more example

   ‘So you do actually want to be’ – Prynce took a drag on his vape, a slim black thing that looked no different in size and shape to a tube of liquid eyeliner – ‘an influencer?’

   2022, Candice Carty-Williams, People Person, Trapeze, page 152

   Synonyms: e-cig, e-cigarette, e-pipe, electronic nicotine delivery system, hoohak pen, nic stick, razz, vape pen

present singular third person vapes · participle present vaping · participle past vaped · past vaped

1. informalintransitiveTo inhale the vapor produced by a non-combustible cigarette, most commonly an electronic cigarette.

   "Vaping" is just a fancy way to avoid the term "smoking", since smoking is illegal everywhere and these things don't burn anything and don't produce second-hand smoke.

   2008 April 24, TropicalBob, "Re: Now that's smoking!" https://web.archive.org/web/20130627163514/http://www.e-cigarette-forum.com/forum/tips-tricks/550-now-thats-smoking-3.html, e-cigarette-forum

   3 more examples

   "E-smoking" is a bit of a handful, "Misting" sounds far too fey, "Vaporizing" or "Vaping" has drug connotations. There must be a better word for my new hobby! Suggestions?

   2007 December 18, SmokeyJoe, "Well it's not smoking....So what is it?" https://web.archive.org/web/20130627153908/http://www.e-cigarette-forum.com/forum/general-e-smoking-discussion/535-well-its-not-smoking-so-what.html#post11419, e-cigarette-forum

   I have received both my Sedansa and Njoy ciggies. ... They vape about the same. I can drip in both cigs, whether into the atomizer or into the filter. ... The e-cig minicig from .......... sucks -- and I don't mean literally. I can't get anything out of them. I don't like their pipe either. It vapes plenty; you just can't inhale and exhale much of anything.

   2008 March 2, marian00, "Re: NJOY International" https://web.archive.org/web/20130627154448/http://www.e-cigarette-forum.com/forum/general-e-smoking-discussion/597-njoy-international.html#post11681, e-cigarette-forum

   Electronic cigarettes, battery-powered devices that convert a solution of nicotine and other chemicals into a vapor that can be inhaled, or "vaped," have the potential to wean a vast number of smokers off cigarettes. […] The problem is, not enough smokers are switching to e-cigarettes, despite their relative safety – and understandably so. Smokers are barraged with news about inaccurate labeling, shoddy counterfeits and poorly made e-cigarettes that emit toxins and cancer-causing chemicals in vapor. […] [T]he F.D.A. should allow companies to tell smokers about the benefits of switching to vaping products.

   2015 January 18, Sally Satel, “Will the F.D.A. kill off e-cigs? [print version: International New York Times, 20 January 2015, p. 6]”, in The New York Times

plural vapes

1. informalThe smoking of a non-combustible cigarette, most commonly an electronic cigarette.

   Zack was standing outside the podium of the Shard having a vape when Terence dropped her and Patrick off at 8.20pm.

   2017, Douglas Board, Time of Lies