smoke
/sməʊk/
noun
Meaning
The visible vapor/vapour, gases, and fine particles given off by burning or smoldering material.
A cigarette.
"Can I bum a smoke off you?; I need to go buy some smokes."
Anything to smoke (e.g. cigarettes, marijuana, etc.)
"Hey, you got some smoke?"
(never plural) An instance of smoking a cigarette, cigar, etc.; the duration of this act.
"I'm going out for a smoke."
A fleeting illusion; something insubstantial, evanescent, unreal, transitory, or without result.
"The excitement behind the new candidate proved to be smoke."
Something used to obscure or conceal; an obscuring condition; see also smoke and mirrors.
"The smoke of controversy."
A light grey colour/color tinted with blue.
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.
A fastball.
Synonyms
adjective
Meaning
Of the colour known as smoke.
Made of or with smoke.