Pronunciation Noun
smoke
- (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, uncountable) Anything to smoke (e.g. cigarettes, marijuana, etc.)
- Hey, you got some smoke?
- (colloquial, countable, never plural) An instance of smoking a cigarette, cigar, etc.; the duration of this act.
- 1884, Mark Twain, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Chapter VII:
- I lit a pipe and had a good long smoke, and went on watching.
- I'm going out for a smoke.
- 1884, Mark Twain, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Chapter VII:
- (uncountable, figuratively) A fleeting illusion; something insubstantial, evanescent, unreal, transitory, or without result.
- The excitement behind the new candidate proved to be smoke.
- 1974, John le Carré, Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy, New York: Knopf, Chapter 6, p. 44,
- I fed her a lot of smoke about a sheep station outside Adelaide and a big property in the high street with a glass front and ‘Thomas’ in lights. She didn’t believe me.
- (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.
- (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.
- (baseball, slang) A fastball.
- (cigarette) cig, ciggy, cancer stick, coffin nail, fag (British)
smoke (smokes, present participle smoking; past and past participle smoked)
- (transitive) To inhale and exhale the smoke from a burning cigarette, cigar, pipe, etc.
- He's smoking his pipe.
- (intransitive) To inhale and exhale tobacco smoke.
- Do you smoke?
- (intransitive) To give off smoke.
- My old truck was still smoking even after the repairs.
- 1645, John Milton, L'Allegro
- Hard by a cottage chimney smokes.
- (intransitive) Of a fire in a fireplace: to emit smoke outward instead of up the chimney, owing to imperfect draught.
- (transitive) To preserve or prepare (food) for consumption by treating with smoke.
- You'll need to smoke the meat for several hours.
- (transitive) To dry or medicate by smoke.
- (transitive, obsolete) To fill or scent with smoke; hence, to fill with incense; to perfume.
- Smoking the temple, ful of clothes fayre, / This Emelie with herte debonaire / Hire body wesshe with water of a well […]
- (transitive, obsolete) To make unclear or blurry.
- 1820, Percy Bysshe Shelley, Oedipus Tyrannus; Or, Swellfoot The Tyrant: A Tragedy in Two Acts:
- Smoke your bits of glass,
Ye loyal Swine, or her transfiguration
Will blind your wondering eyes.
- Smoke your bits of glass,
- 1820, Percy Bysshe Shelley, Oedipus Tyrannus; Or, Swellfoot The Tyrant: A Tragedy in Two Acts:
- (intransitive, slang, mostly, as present participle) To perform (e.g. music) energetically or skillfully.
- The horn section was really smokin' on that last tune.
- (US, Canada, NZ, slang) To beat someone at something.
- We smoked them at rugby.
- (transitive, US, slang) To kill, especially with a gun.
- He got smoked by the mob.
- (transitive, slang, obsolete) To thrash; to beat.
- (obsolete, transitive) To smell out; to hunt out; to find out; to detect.
- c. 1604–1605, William Shakespeare, “All’s VVell, that Ends VVell”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies: Published According to the True Originall Copies (First Folio), London: Printed by Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, OCLC 606515358 ↗, [Act III, scene vi]:
- He was first smoked by the old Lord Lafeu.
- I alone / Smoked his true person, talked with him.
- RQ
- Upon that […] I began to smoke that they were a parcel of mummers.
- 1749, Henry Fielding, The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling
- The squire gave him a good curse at his departure; and then turning to the parson, he cried out, "I smoke it: I smoke it. Tom is certainly the father of this bastard. […]
- (slang, obsolete, transitive) To ridicule to the face; to mock.
- To burn; to be kindled; to rage.
- 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), imprinted at London: By Robert Barker, […], OCLC 964384981 ↗, Deuteronomy 29:20 ↗:
- The anger of the Lord and his jealousy shall smoke against that man.
- To raise a dust or smoke by rapid motion.
- Proud of his steeds, he smokes along the field.
- To suffer severely; to be punished.
- c. 1588–1593, William Shakespeare, “The Lamentable Tragedy of Titus Andronicus”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies: Published According to the True Originall Copies (First Folio), London: Printed by Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, OCLC 606515358 ↗, [Act IV, scene ii]:
- Some of you shall smoke for it in Rome.
- (transitive, US military slang) To punish (a person) for a minor offense by excessive physical exercise.
- (transitive) To cover (a key blank) with soot or carbon to aid in seeing the marks made by impressioning.
- (to inhale and exhale smoke from a burning cigarette) have a smoke
- French: fumer
- German: räuchern
- Italian: affumicare, affumare
- Portuguese: defumar
- Russian: копти́ть
- Spanish: ahumar
- French: descendre
smoke
- Of the colour known as smoke.
- Made of or with smoke.
- Russian: ды́мчатый
Smoke
Proper noun
- (British, slang, with "the") London.
- I'm heading down to the Smoke later this week.
- The 44th sura (chapter) of the Qur'an.
- French: Fumée
- Russian: Ды́м
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