Meaning

• Noun

  1. The visible vapor/vapour, gases, and fine particles given off by burning or smoldering material.
  2. (colloquial) A cigarette.
  3. (colloquial) Anything to smoke (e.g. cigarettes, marijuana, etc.)
  4. (colloquial) An instance of smoking a cigarette, cigar, etc.; the duration of this act.
  5. A fleeting illusion; something insubstantial, evanescent, unreal, transitory, or without result.
  6. Something used to obscure or conceal; an obscuring condition; see also smoke and mirrors.
  7. A light grey colour/color tinted with blue.
  8. (slang) Bother; problems; hassle.
  9. 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.
  10. (slang) A fastball.
  11. A distinct column of smoke, such as indicating a burning area or fire.

• Verb