smoke
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[edit] Etymology
Old English smoca
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[edit] Noun
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smoke (countable and uncountable; plural smokes)
- (uncountable) The visible vapor/vapour, gases, and fine particles given off by burning or smoldering material.
- (colloquial, countable) A cigarette.
- Can I bum a smoke off you? I need to go buy some smokes.
- (colloquial, countable, never plural) An instance of smoking a cigarette, cigar, etc.; the duration of this act.
- I'm going out for a smoke.
- (uncountable, figuratively) A fleeting illusion; something insubstantial, evanescent, unreal, transitory, or without result.
- The excitement behind the new candidate proved to be smoke.
- (uncountable, figuratively) Something used to obscure or conceal; an obscuring condition; see also smoke and mirrors.
- The smoke of controversy.
- (uncountable) A light grey colour/color tinted with blue.
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- (military, uncountable) A particulate of solid or liquid particles dispersed into the air on the battlefield to degrade enemy ground or for aerial observation. Smoke has many uses--screening smoke, signaling smoke, smoke curtain, smoke haze, and smoke deception. Thus it is an artificial aerosol.
- (UK, slang) (The Smoke) London
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- (cigarette): cig, ciggy, cancer stick, fag (UK, Australia)
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Terms derived from the noun "smoke"
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particles and vapour given off by burning material
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an instance of smoking
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slang: a cigarette
colour
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military: artificial smoke-like aerosol used on the battlefield
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to smoke (third-person singular simple present smokes, present participle smoking, simple past and past participle smoked)
- To inhale and exhale the smoke from a burning cigarette, cigar, pipe, etc.
- He's smoking his pipe.
- (intransitive) To inhale and exhale from a burning cigarette, and to engage in this act regularly or habitually.
- Do you smoke?
- (intransitive) To give off smoke.
- My old truck was still smoking even after the repairs.
- To preserve or prepare (food) for consumption by treating with smoke and low heat.
- You'll need to smoke the meat for several hours.
- (slang) To perform, e.g. music, energetically. Almost always in present participle form.
- The horn section was really smoking on that last tune.
- (US, slang) To kill, especially with a gun.
- He got smoked by the mob.
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Terms derived from the verb "smoke"
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inhale and exhale smoke from a burning cigarette
inhale and exhale from a cigarette regularly
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preserve or roast by treating with smoke
give off smoke
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[edit] Adjective
smoke
- Of the colour known as smoke.
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