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smoke

  [smohk] noun, verb, smoked, smok⋅ing.
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–noun
1. the visible vapor and gases given off by a burning or smoldering substance, esp. the gray, brown, or blackish mixture of gases and suspended carbon particles resulting from the combustion of wood, peat, coal, or other organic matter.
2. something resembling this, as vapor or mist, flying particles, etc.
3. something unsubstantial, evanescent, or without result: Their hopes and dreams proved to be smoke.
4. an obscuring condition: the smoke of controversy.
5. an act or spell of smoking something, esp. tobacco: They had a smoke during the intermission.
6. something for smoking, as a cigar or cigarette: This is the best smoke on the market.
7. Slang. marijuana.
8. Slang. a homemade drink consisting of denatured alcohol and water.
9. Physics, Chemistry. a system of solid particles suspended in a gaseous medium.
10. a bluish or brownish gray color.
–verb (used without object)
11. to give off or emit smoke, as in burning.
12. to give out smoke offensively or improperly, as a stove.
13. to send forth steam or vapor, dust, or the like.
14. to draw into the mouth and puff out the smoke of tobacco or the like, as from a pipe or cigarette.
15. Slang. to ride or travel with great speed.
16. Australian.
a. to flee.
b. to abscond.
–verb (used with object)
17. to draw into the mouth and puff out the smoke of: to smoke tobacco.
18. to use (a pipe, cigarette, etc.) in this process.
19. to expose to smoke.
20. to fumigate (rooms, furniture, etc.).
21. to cure (meat, fish, etc.) by exposure to smoke.
22. to color or darken by smoke.
—Verb phrase
23. smoke out,
a. to drive from a refuge by means of smoke.
b. to force into public view or knowledge; reveal: to smoke out the leaders of the spy ring.
—Idiom
24. go up or end in smoke, to terminate without producing a result; be unsuccessful: All our dreams went up in smoke.
Origin:
bef. 1000; (n.) ME; OE smoca; (v.) ME smoken, OE smocian

Related forms:
smokelike, adjective
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smoke   (smōk)   
n.  

  1. The vaporous system made up of small particles of carbonaceous matter in the air, resulting mainly from the burning of organic material, such as wood or coal.

  2. A suspension of fine solid or liquid particles in a gaseous medium.

  3. A cloud of fine particles.

  4. Something insubstantial, unreal, or transitory.

    1. The act of smoking a form of tobacco: went out for a smoke.

    2. The duration of this act.

  6. Informal Tobacco in a form that can be smoked, especially a cigarette: money to buy smokes.

  7. A substance used in warfare to produce a smoke screen.

  8. Something used to conceal or obscure.

  9. A pale to grayish blue to bluish or dark gray.

v.   smoked, smok·ing, smokes

v.   intr.

    1. To draw in and exhale smoke from a cigarette, cigar, or pipe: It's forbidden to smoke here.

    2. To engage in smoking regularly or habitually: He smoked for years before stopping.

    3. To go or proceed at high speed.

    4. To play or perform energetically: The band was really smoking in the second set.

  2. To emit smoke or a smokelike substance: chimneys smoking in the cold air.

  3. To emit smoke excessively: The station wagon smoked even after the tune-up.

  4. Slang

    1. To go or proceed at high speed.

    2. To play or perform energetically: The band was really smoking in the second set.

v.   tr.

    1. To draw in and exhale the smoke of (tobacco, for example): I've never smoked a panatela.

    2. To do so regularly or habitually: I used to smoke filtered cigarettes.

    3. To fumigate (a house, for example).

    4. To expose (animals, especially insects) to smoke in order to immobilize or drive away.

  2. To preserve (meat or fish) by exposure to the aromatic smoke of burning hardwood, usually after pickling in salt or brine.

    1. To fumigate (a house, for example).

    2. To expose (animals, especially insects) to smoke in order to immobilize or drive away.

  4. To expose (glass) to smoke in order to darken or change its color.

  5. Slang To kill; murder.

Phrasal Verb(s):
smoke out

  1. To force out of a place of hiding or concealment by or as if by the use of smoke.

  2. To detect and bring to public view; expose or reveal: smoke out a scandal.


Idiom(s):
smoke and mirrorsSomething that deceives or distorts the truth: Your explanation is nothing but smoke and mirrors.

[Middle English, from Old English smoca.]
smok'a·ble, smoke'a·ble adj.
The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
Copyright © 2009 by Houghton Mifflin Company.
Published by Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved.
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Slang Dictionary
smoke

  1. n.
    a tobacco cigarette; a pipe of tobacco; a cigar. : I think I'll have a smoke now.
  2. n.
    the act of smoking anything smokable, including drugs. : I need a smoke—of anything. , I'm going to stop here for a smoke.
  3. n.
    methyl alcohol; bad liquor; any liquor. : They call it smoke because when you mix it with water and shake it, it's cloudy.
  4. n.
    exaggeration; deception. (See also blow smoke; smoke and mirrors.) : If the smoke is too obvious, they'll just get suspicious.
  5. tv.
    to annihilate someone; to shoot someone. (Underworld.) : Rocko tried time and time again to smoke Marlowe, always without success.
  6. tv.
    to beat someone in a contest; to outrun, outdistance, or outplay someone. : Jill smoked Dave in the bicycle race.
Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions by Richard A. Spears.Fourth Edition.
Copyright 2007. Published by McGraw Hill.
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Word Origin & History

smoke  (n.1)
late O.E. smoca, related to smeocan "give off smoke," from P.Gmc. *smeukanan (cf. M.Du. smooc, Du. smook, M.H.G. smouch, Ger. Schmauch), from PIE base *smeug(h)- "to smoke" (cf. Arm. mux "smoke," Gk. smykhein "to burn with smoldering flame," O.Ir. much, Welsh mwg "smoke"). Smokestack is from 1862; smoke-eater "firefighter" is c.1930. Phrase go up in smoke "be destroyed" is from 1933. smoke alarm first attested 1936.

smoke  (v.)
O.E. smocian "to produce smoke," see smoke (n.). Meaning "to drive out or away or into the open by means of smoke" is attested from 1593. Meaning "to cure (bacon, fish, etc.) by exposure to smoke" is first attested 1599. In connection with tobacco, the verb is first recorded 1604 in James I's "Counterblast to Tobacco." Smoking gun in figurative sense of "incontestable evidence" is from 1974.

smoke  (n.2)
"cigarette," slang, 1882, from smoke (n.1). Also "opium" (1884). Meaning "a spell of smoking tobacco" is recorded from 1835.
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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Medical Dictionary

Main Entry: smoke
Pronunciation: 'smOk
Function: verb
Inflected Forms: smoked; smok·ing
intransitive senses
: to inhaleand exhale the fumes of burning plant material and especially tobacco; especially : to smoke tobacco habitually smoke transitive senses
: to inhale and exhalethe smoke of <smoked 30 cigarettes a day>
Merriam-Webster's Medical Dictionary, © 2002 Merriam-Webster, Inc.
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Science Dictionary
smoke   (smōk)  Pronunciation Key 
A mixture of carbon dioxide, water vapor, and other gases, usually containing particles of soot or other solids, produced by the burning of carbon-containing materials such as wood and coal.
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Computing Dictionary

smoke
1. To crash or blow up, usually spectacularly. "The new version smoked, just like the last one." Used for both hardware (where it often describes an actual physical event), and software (where it's merely colourful).
2. [Automotive slang] To be conspicuously fast. "That processor really smokes." Compare magic smoke.
[The Jargon File]

The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing, © 1993-2007 Denis Howe
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Idioms & Phrases

smoke

In addition to the idiom beginning with smoke, also see chain smoker; go up in flames (smoke); holy cow (smoke); no smoke without fire; watch one's dust (smoke).

The American Heritage® Dictionary of Idioms by Christine Ammer.
Copyright © 1997. Published by Houghton Mifflin.
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