smoke

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

• If those were the days, however, when steam was triumphant, they were also the days of smoke. Nowhere was this so apparent as at "Kings Cross (Suburban)" where, one after another, the Great Northern tank engines thumped their way up the inc
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A cigarette.colloquialcountable

• Can I bum a smoke off you?
• I need to go buy some smokes.

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

• Hey, you got some smoke?

An instance of smoking a cigarette, cigar, etc.; the duration of this act.colloquialcountable

• I'm going out for a smoke.

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

• The excitement behind the new candidate proved to be smoke.

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

• The smoke of controversy.

A light grey color tinted with blue.uncountable

Bother, trouble; problems; hassle.slanguncountable

• You better not be giving me no smoke.

Any cloud of solid particles or liquid vapor dispersed into the air; particularly one of:; Opaque aerosol released on a battlefield, used e.g. to signal or to degrade enemy observation via smokescreen.countableuncountable

Any cloud of solid particles or liquid vapor dispersed into the air; particularly one of:; Pollen scattered by a plant.countableuncountable

• There has been a great deal of smoke in the yew-trees this year. One day there was such a cloud that it seemed to be a fire in the shrubbery. […]
• A gustful April morn / That puff'd the swaying branches into smoke.

To inhale and exhale the smoke from a burning cigarette or cigar, burning material in a pipe, etc.transitive

• He's smoking his pipe.
• Her dad smoked various brands when he was younger.

To inhale and exhale tobacco smoke.intransitive

• Do you smoke?

To give off smoke.intransitive

• My old truck was still smoking even after the repairs.

To give off smoke.; Of a fire in a fireplace, to emit smoke outward instead of up the chimney, owing to imperfect draught.intransitive

To give off smoke.; Of tobacco: to give off or produce smoke (in a certain manner or of a certain type).intransitive

• "Damp tobacco," said Cripps, eyeing Limpet offensively as he threw down the challenge, "smokes unevenly. You'll admit that to start with."
• "Dry tobacco burns even, and therefore smokes cool."

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

• You'll need to smoke the meat for several hours.

To dry or medicate by smoke.transitive

• After opening one of the hives from the back, he smoked the bees to calm them and to drive the queen toward the front of the hive.

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

To make unclear or blurry.obsoletetransitive

• Smoke your bits of glass, Ye loyal Swine, or her transfiguration Will blind your wondering eyes.

To perform (e.g. music) energetically or skillfully.intransitiveslang

• The horn section was really smokin' on that last tune.