colloq. (orig dial. and School slang).
A thick, close, stuffy atmosphere, esp. that of a room overcrowded and with little or no ventilation. (OED)
"Instead, they exist in a constant fug that I took for cigarette smoke or tear gas, but that slowly resolves itself into a nimbus of ill-defined needs - a haze of becoming, with the foothills of adulthood starting to loom ahead."
- Anthony Lane, "Battle weary: 'Iron Man 3' and 'Something in the Air'", 6 May 2013 The New Yorker
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