smoke

Meaning

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.

steam

give off smoke

emit smoke

of fire

smoke a cigarette

roll of tobacco

emit fumes

fill with smoke

make smoke

shoot dead

smoke shell

smoke and dust

smoky fog

be ablaze

be on fire

give out smoke

fag

raise dust

set afire

smoke tobacco

short rest

expose to vapor

expose to vapour

take smoke into

coffin-nail

gun smoke

smoke dust

Frequency

Pronounced as (IPA)

/sməʊk/

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”).