Zone something out
zone something out
noun
(also zoner) a person intoxicated with narcotics, esp habitually so; sp-ce cadet (1960s+ narcotics)
verb
to be inattentive; be hazily preoccupied: he zoned so bad he didn’t even hear the teacher call his name/ i was kind of zonin’, checking things out (1980s+)
[fr ozone, ”a very high level of the atmosphere”]
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