transitive. To consume, swallow (food or drink); to eat or drink (something); to partake of.

To draw in or inhale (tobacco smoke, etc.); to smoke. Obsolete.

intransitive. To take a deep pull or drag at or on a cigarette, pipe, etc. Also (and in earliest use) transitive: to inhale smoke from or suck on…

intransitive. To puff, draw, or suck at or on a pipe, cigar, or cigarette.

To pull on or at (a cigarette); to inhale (cigarette smoke). colloquial (originally U.S.). (Cf. pull, v. 17b.)

transitive. To breathe in; to draw in by (or as by) breathing; to take into the lungs. Used spec. of the taking in of anæsthetics in form of gas…