smoke

A1
Pronunciation
/sməʊk/
/smoʊk/
Noun
9 definition(s)
1 Definition

The visible vapor/vapour, gases, and fine particles given off by burning or smoldering material.

2 Definition

A cigarette.

Example Sentences
  • Can I bum a smoke off you?;  I need to go buy some smokes.
3 Definition

Anything to smoke (e.g. cigarettes, marijuana, etc.)

Example Sentences
  • Hey, you got some smoke?
4 Definition

(never plural) An instance of smoking a cigarette, cigar, etc.; the duration of this act.

Example Sentences
  • I'm going out for a smoke.
5 Definition

A fleeting illusion; something insubstantial, evanescent, unreal, transitory, or without result.

Example Sentences
  • The excitement behind the new candidate proved to be smoke.
6 Definition

Something used to obscure or conceal; an obscuring condition; see also smoke and mirrors.

Example Sentences
  • The smoke of controversy.
7 Definition

A light grey colour/color tinted with blue.

8 Definition

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.

9 Definition

A fastball.

Verb
18 definition(s)
1 Definition

To inhale and exhale the smoke from a burning cigarette, cigar, pipe, etc.

Example Sentences
  • He's smoking his pipe.
2 Definition

To inhale and exhale tobacco smoke.

Example Sentences
  • Do you smoke?
3 Definition

To give off smoke.

Example Sentences
  • My old truck was still smoking even after the repairs.
4 Definition

To preserve or prepare (food) for consumption by treating with smoke.

Example Sentences
  • You'll need to smoke the meat for several hours.
5 Definition

To dry or medicate by smoke.

6 Definition

To fill or scent with smoke; hence, to fill with incense; to perfume.

7 Definition

To make unclear or blurry.

8 Definition

(chiefly as present participle) To perform (e.g. music) energetically or skillfully.

Example Sentences
  • The horn section was really smokin' on that last tune.
9 Definition

To beat someone at something.

Example Sentences
  • We smoked them at rugby.
10 Definition

To kill, especially with a gun.

Example Sentences
  • He got smoked by the mob.
11 Definition

To thrash; to beat.

12 Definition

To smell out; to hunt out; to find out; to detect.

13 Definition

To ridicule to the face; to mock.

14 Definition

To burn; to be kindled; to rage.

15 Definition

To raise a dust or smoke by rapid motion.

16 Definition

To suffer severely; to be punished.

17 Definition

To punish (a person) for a minor offense by excessive physical exercise.

18 Definition

To cover (a key blank) with soot or carbon to aid in seeing the marks made by impressioning.

Adjective
2 definition(s)
1 Definition

Of the colour known as smoke.

2 Definition

Made of or with smoke.