n. a cigarette or a cigar. : That root you're smoking sure stinks.
in. to eat food like a pig. : Bart is downstairs rooting now. It won't take that slob long to eat.
Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions by Richard A. Spears.Fourth Edition. Copyright 2007. Published by McGraw Hill.
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root and branch
Utterly, completely, as in The company has been transformed root and branch by the new management. Alluding to both the underground and aboveground parts of a tree, this idiom was first recorded in 1640.
