smoke
Meaning
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- The visible vapor/vapour, gases, and fine particles given off by burning or smoldering material.
- (colloquial) A cigarette.
- (colloquial) Anything to smoke (e.g. cigarettes, marijuana, etc.)
- (colloquial) An instance of smoking a cigarette, cigar, etc.; the duration of this act.
- A fleeting illusion; something insubstantial, evanescent, unreal, transitory, or without result.
- Something used to obscure or conceal; an obscuring condition; see also smoke and mirrors.
- A light grey colour/color tinted with blue.
- (slang) Bother; problems; hassle.
- 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.
- (slang) A fastball.
- A distinct column of smoke, such as indicating a burning area or fire.
Concepts
smoke
steam
fume
fumes
fumigate
fog
give off smoke
vapour
drink
soot
cigarette
puff
inhale
smolder
suck
vapor
fag
reek
mist
emit smoke
smoking
flame
tobacco
cure
gas
burn
smoulder
sputter
glow
cloud
bullet
fastball
heater
hummer
eat
of fire
smoky
emit
smoke a cigarette
dust
dry
fill with smoke
emit fumes
Mary Jane
dope
gage
grass
green goddess
locoweed
pot
sens
sess
skunk
weed
roll of tobacco
smudge
make smoke
smog
kipper
clouds
cig
fire
cigaret
fuddle
gulp
quaff
take
whiff
puff out
dose
lull
short rest
breathe in
take smoke into
expose to vapor
expose to vapour
draw
be ablaze
be on fire
blaze
dehydrate
drag
brume
carbon
lampblack
marijuana
miasma
suspect
ridicule
suffer
give out smoke
haze
blacken
sizzle
aflame
belch
lunt
smoke and dust
smoke dust
smoke shell
smoky fog
smell
ashes
consume
i.e.
pipe
tobacco pipe
butt
coffin-nail
grill
roast
blow
put out
bake
burn off
burn up
cauterise
cauterize
fan
fritter away
parch
retire
scorch
sear
set afire
sting
strike out
tag
torch
urticate
gun smoke
plume
blow smoke
pall
smoke and mirrors
raise dust
opium
water vapor
cigarettes
smoked
shoot
shoot dead
flue gas
tab
cigar
coffin nail
gwaai
booze
guzzle
tipple
bloat
give head
smoke tobacco
cigars
pipes
light
whirlwind
Frequency
Pronounced as (IPA)
/sməʊk/
Etymology
From Middle English smoke, from Old English smoca (“smoke”), probably a derivative of the verb (see below). Related to Dutch smook (“smoke”), Middle Low German smôk (“smoke”), dialectal German Schmauch (“smoke”).
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