flash the ash

English

Verb

flash the ash (third-person singular simple present flashes the ash, present participle flashing the ash, simple past and past participle flashed the ash)

1. (slang) To give somebody a cigarette.
   • 2015, Trevor Coote, Lemon Socks, page 65:

     The lads were sprawled along the upholstered bench behind the pool table, smoking, drinking and larking around as usual.
     'Flash the ash,' said Glenn on joining them.

   • 2015, Richard Blackshire, Newtown Naughty Boy, page 145:

     Everyone smoked so if the auditorium was full, the whole room would be filled with smoke in next to no time. It was like the legendary London smog of the 1950s in there sometimes. You took it in turn to “flash the ash” as it was called.

Related terms

• flash for cash
• flash the cash

References

• Tony Thorne (2014) “flash the ash”, in Dictionary of Contemporary Slang, 4th edition, London,  […]: Bloomsbury