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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

cancer stick,
cig,
ciggy,
coffin nail,
fag

adjective

Meaning

  • Of the colour known as smoke.

  • Made of or with smoke.