[Idiom] Bonged a load

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jebonfikri

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Uncle says he was a little drunk and Roger says he wasn't. And Moms says he had really, like, bonged a load.

What is the meaning of Bonged a load?

I have searched it, but can't find it.

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A "bong" is a water pipe used for smoking marijuana. If he bonged a load, then he smoked some marijuana. (You load the weed into the pipe in order to smoke it.)
 

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So, there is no figurative meaning, right?
 

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It's just relatively common slang as far as drug use is concerned and just means "Mum said that he had smoked some marijuana from a bong". I'm fairly certain no self-respecting dope-user would utter the sentence I just wrote. Drug use has its own specific terminology.
 

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Depending on how much Mum knew about drugs, it could just mean that he had smoked a lot of marijuana, not necessarily from a water pipe, but that's about as far as I can go figuratively.
 
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