smoke

Etymology

Definitions

1. 1

   The visible vapor/vapour, gases, and fine particles given off by burning or smoldering…

   The visible vapor/vapour, gases, and fine particles given off by burning or smoldering material.

2. 2

   A cigarette.

   • Can I bum a smoke off you?; I need to go buy some smokes.
   • 2019, Idles, "Never Fight a Man With a Perm", Joy as an Act of Resistance. I said I've got a penchant for smokes and kicking douches in the mouth / Sadly for you my last cigarette's gone out
3. 3

   Anything to smoke (e.g. cigarettes, marijuana, etc.)

   • Hey, you got some smoke?
   • ERCS Guard: Got a smoke? We're all out.
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   1. 4

      An instance of smoking a cigarette, cigar, etc.

      An instance of smoking a cigarette, cigar, etc.; the duration of this act.

      • I lit a pipe and had a good long smoke, and went on watching.
      • I'm going out for a smoke.
   2. 5

      A fleeting illusion

      A fleeting illusion; something insubstantial, evanescent, unreal, transitory, or without result.

      • The excitement behind the new candidate proved to be smoke.
      • 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.
   3. 6

      Something used to obscure or conceal

      Something used to obscure or conceal; an obscuring condition; see also smoke and mirrors.

      • The smoke of controversy.
   4. 7

      A light grey color tinted with blue.

   5. 8

      Bother, trouble

      Bother, trouble; problems; hassle.

      • You better not be giving me no smoke.
   6. 9

      Any cloud of solid particles or liquid vapor dispersed into the air

      Any cloud of solid particles or liquid vapor dispersed into the air; particularly one of:

   7. 10

      A fastball.

   8. 11

      A distinct column of smoke, such as indicating a burning area or fire.

      • Should the commander of one column desire to communicate with the other, he raises three smokes simultaneously, which, if seen by the other party, should be responded to in the same manner.
      • […] and we could not discern any settlement or any people, but we did see two smokes up-river in some thick groves of oak and cork and willows and other high trees, of a good thickness, resembling ash trees.
      • In the evening haze, even the Calton Gaol took on something of the savage grandeur of a Doré drawing, and this was by no means spoilt by the rising smokes of North British engines in the ravine below.
   9. 12

      To inhale and exhale the smoke from a burning cigarette, cigar, pipe, etc.

      • He's smoking his pipe.
      • Smoking a pipe has gone out of fashion.
      • Olivia's dad smoked various brands when he was younger.
   10. 13

       To inhale and exhale tobacco smoke.

       • To Edward […] he was terrible, nerve-inflaming, poisonously asphyxiating. He sat rocking himself in the late Mr. Churchill's swing chair, smoking and twaddling.
       • Do you smoke?
   11. 14

       To give off smoke.

       • My old truck was still smoking even after the repairs.
       • Hard by a cottage chimney smokes.
       • But what struck me most, and at once, was the sharpness, the clear definition of everything-even the distant housetops view across the opposite roofs. And then I noticed that no chimney, large or small, was smoking.
   12. 15

       To preserve or prepare (food) for consumption by treating with smoke.

       • You'll need to smoke the meat for several hours.
   13. 16

       To dry or medicate by smoke.

       • After opening one of the hives from the back, he smoked the bees to calm them and to drive the queen toward the front of the hive.
   14. 17

       To fill or scent with smoke

       To fill or scent with smoke; hence, to fill with incense; to perfume.

   15. 18

       To make unclear or blurry.

       • Smoke your bits of glass, Ye loyal Swine, or her transfiguration Will blind your wondering eyes.
   16. 19

       To perform (e.g. music) energetically or skillfully.

       • The horn section was really smokin' on that last tune.
   17. 20

       To beat someone at something.

       • We smoked them at rugby.
       • Super Macho Man: 'I DON'T SMOKE... BUT TONIGHT I'M GONNA SMOKE YOU!'
   18. 21

       To snuff out

       To snuff out; to kill, especially with a gun.

       • He got smoked by the mob.
       • I had never met my father, and Precious's daddy had gotten smoked before she was even born.
   19. 22

       To thrash

       To thrash; to beat.

   20. 23

       To smell out

       To smell out; to hunt out; to find out; to detect.

       • He was first smoked by the old Lord Lafeu.
       • I alone / Smok'd his true person, talk'd with him.
       • Upon that […] I began to smoke that they were a parcel of mummers.
   21. 24

       To ridicule to the face

       To ridicule to the face; to mock.

   22. 25

       To burn

       To burn; to be kindled; to rage.

       • The anger of the Lord and his jealousy shall smoke against that man.
   23. 26

       To raise a dust or smoke by rapid motion.

       • Proud of his steeds, he smokes along the field.
   24. 27

       To suffer severely

       To suffer severely; to be punished.

       • Some of you shall smoke for it in Rome.
   25. 28

       To punish (a person) for a minor offense by excessive physical exercise.

   26. 29

       To cover (a key blank) with soot or carbon to aid in seeing the marks made by…

       To cover (a key blank) with soot or carbon to aid in seeing the marks made by impressioning.

   27. 30

       The 44th sura (chapter) of the Qur'an.

   28. 31

       London.

       • I'm heading down to the Smoke later this week.
   29. 32

       Synonym of Burmilla.

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