smoke

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Etymology[edit]

From Middle English smoke, from Old English smoca (“smoke”), probably a derivative of the verb smocian (“to smoke, emit smoke; fumigate”), from Proto-Germanic *smukōnan (“to smoke”), ablaut derivative of Proto-Germanic *smeukanan (“to smoke”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)meug(h)- (“to smoke”). Related to Old English smēocan (“to smoke, emit smoke; fumigate”), Dutch smook (“smoke”), Middle Low German smōk (“smoke”), German dialectal Schmauch (“smoke”), Bavarian schmuckelen (“to smell bad, reek”).

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Noun[edit]

smoke (countable and uncountable; plural smokes)

  1. (uncountable) The visible vapor/vapour, gases, and fine particles given off by burning or smoldering material.
  2. (colloquial, countable) A cigarette.
    Can I bum a smoke off you? I need to go buy some smokes.
  3. (colloquial, countable, never plural) An instance of smoking a cigarette, cigar, etc.; the duration of this act.
    I'm going out for a smoke.
  4. (uncountable, figuratively) A fleeting illusion; something insubstantial, evanescent, unreal, transitory, or without result.
    The excitement behind the new candidate proved to be smoke.
  5. (uncountable, figuratively) Something used to obscure or conceal; an obscuring condition; see also smoke and mirrors.
    The smoke of controversy.
  6. (uncountable) A light grey colour/color tinted with blue.
    smoke colour:    
  7. (military, uncountable) 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. (baseball, slang) A fastball.

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Terms derived from the noun "smoke"

Translations[edit]

visible particles and vapour given off by burning material
colloquial: cigarette
colloquial: instance of smoking
figurative: fleeting illusion
something used to obscure or conceal
colour
military: artificial smoke-like aerosol used on the battlefield
baseball slang:fastball — see fastball
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Verb[edit]

smoke (third-person singular simple present smokes, present participle smoking, simple past and past participle smoked)

  1. (transitive) To inhale and exhale the smoke from a burning cigarette, cigar, pipe, etc.
    He's smoking his pipe.
  2. (intransitive) To inhale and exhale tobacco smoke regularly or habitually.
    Do you smoke?
  3. (intransitive) 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. (slang) 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. (US, slang) To kill, especially with a gun.
    He got smoked by the mob.
  7. (New Zealand, slang) To beat someone at something.
    We smoked them at rugby.
  8. (transitive, obsolete) To fill or scent with smoke; hence, to fill with incense; to perfume.
    • Chaucer
      Smoking the temple.
  9. (obsolete, transitive) To smell out; to hunt out; to find out; to detect.
    • Chapman
      I alone / Smoked his true person, talked with him.
    • Shakespeare
      He was first smoked by the old Lord Lafeu.
    • Addison
      Upon that […] I began to smoke that they were a parcel of mummers.
  10. (slang, obsolete, transitive) To ridicule to the face; to quiz.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.

Derived terms[edit]

Terms derived from the verb "smoke"

Translations[edit]

to inhale and exhale smoke from a burning cigarette
to inhale and exhale tobacco smoke regularly or habitually
to give off smoke
to preserve or prepare by treating with smoke
slang: to perform energetically
slang: to kill, especially with a gun
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Adjective[edit]

smoke

  1. Of the colour known as smoke.
  2. Made of or with smoke.
    • 2006, Edwin Black, chapter 1, Internal Combustion[1]:
      If successful, Edison and Ford—in 1914—would move society away from the […] hazards of gasoline cars: air and water pollution, noise and noxiousness, constant coughing and the undeniable rise in cancers caused by smoke exhaust particulates.

Translations[edit]

of the colour known as smoke

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