Smoke

  • 31smoke — noun 1》 a visible suspension of carbon or other particles in the air, typically one emitted from a burning substance. 2》 an act of smoking tobacco.     ↘informal a cigarette or cigar. 3》 (the Smoke or the Big Smoke) Brit. a big city, especially… …

    English new terms dictionary

  • 32smoke — 1. n. a tobacco cigarette; a pipe of tobacco; a cigar. □ I think I’ll have a smoke now. □ You got a smoke I can owe you? 2. n. the act of smoking anything smokable, including drugs. □ I need a smoke of anything. □ …

    Dictionary of American slang and colloquial expressions

  • 33smoke*/*/ — [sməʊk] noun I 1) [U] a grey, black, or white cloud that is produced by something that is burning A column of black smoke slowly rose above the building.[/ex] The air was thick with cigarette smoke.[/ex] Exploding rockets sent up clouds of… …

    Dictionary for writing and speaking English

  • 34Smoke — Cette page d’homonymie répertorie les différents sujets et articles partageant un même nom. Sur les autres projets Wikimedia : « Smoke », sur le Wiktionnaire (dictionnaire universel) Smoke est un mot anglais qui veut dire fumée. Ce …

    Wikipédia en Français

  • 35smoke — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) v. reek, fume, smolder; steam; puff, inhale, chain smoke; smoke dry, cure; fumigate; begrime, pollute. See dryness, uncleanness, pungency, preservation. II (Roget s IV) n. Syn. vapor, fume, gas, soot,… …

    English dictionary for students

  • 36smoke — 1. noun /sməʊk/ a) The visible vapor/vapour, gases, and fine particles given off by burning or smoldering material. Can I bum a smoke off you? I need to go buy some smokes. b) A cigarette. Im going out for a smo …

    Wiktionary

  • 37smoke — [OE] Smoke has close relatives in German schmauch and Dutch smook, now smooth 464 specialized in meaning to ‘thick smoke’. And more distantly it is linked to Welsh mwg and Breton moged ‘smoke’, Lithuanian smaugti ‘choke with smoke’, Greek… …

    The Hutchinson dictionary of word origins

  • 38smoke — [OE] Smoke has close relatives in German schmauch and Dutch smook, now specialized in meaning to ‘thick smoke’. And more distantly it is linked to Welsh mwg and Breton moged ‘smoke’, Lithuanian smaugti ‘choke with smoke’, Greek smugenai ‘be… …

    Word origins

  • 39smoke — I. vb American a. to kill. A euphemism in underworld and police usage since the 1940s, this unsentimental term was fashionable in teenage speech and crime fiction in the 1980s. b. also smoke out, smoke off to defeat or to better (someone). In the …

    Contemporary slang

  • 40smoke — sməʊk n. visible vapor given off by burning material; something which resembles smoke; something insubstantial; act of smoking tobacco; cigar, cigarette (Slang); something which conceals or hides v. give off smoke; give off a smokelike vapor;… …

    English contemporary dictionary