Smoke
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noun


(1)   (baseball) a pitch thrown with maximum velocity
"He swung late on the fastball"
"He showed batters nothing but smoke"
(2)   The act of smoking tobacco or other substances
"He went outside for a smoke"
"Smoking stinks"
(3)   Street names for marijuana
(4)   Tobacco leaves that have been made into a cylinder
(5)   Something with no concrete substance
"His dreams all turned to smoke"
"It was just smoke and mirrors"
(6)   An indication of some hidden activity
"With all that smoke there must be a fire somewhere"
(7)   A cloud of fine particles suspended in a gas
(8)   A hot vapor containing fine particles of carbon being produced by combustion
"The fire produced a tower of black smoke that could be seen for miles"

verb


(9)   Inhale and exhale smoke from cigarettes, cigars, pipes
"We never smoked marijuana"
"Do you smoke?"
(10)   Emit a cloud of fine particles
"The chimney was fuming"
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Noun



  1. The visible vapor/vapour, gases, and fine particles given off by burning or smoldering material.
  2. A cigarette.
    Can I bum a smoke off you? I need to go buy some smokes.
  3. An instance of smoking a cigarette, cigar, etc.; the duration of this act.
    I'm going out for a smoke.
  4. A fleeting illusion; something insubstantial, evanescent, unreal, transitory, or without result.
    The excitement behind the new candidate proved to be smoke.
  5. Something used to obscure or conceal; an obscuring condition; see also smoke and mirrors.
    The smoke of controversy.
  6. A light grey colour/color tinted with blue.
  7. 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.
  8. A fastball.
  9. (The Smoke) London

Verb



  1. To inhale and exhale the smoke from a burning cigarette, cigar, pipe, etc.
    He's smoking his pipe.
  2. To inhale and exhale tobacco smoke regularly or habitually.
    Do you smoke?
  3. To give off smoke.
    My old truck was still smoking even after the repairs.
  4. To preserve or prepare (food) for consumption by treating with smoke.
    You'll need to smoke the meat for several hours.
  5. To perform (e.g. music) energetically or skillfully. Almost always in present participle form.
    The horn section was really smokin' on that last tune.
  6. To kill, especially with a gun.
    He got smoked by the mob.

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