1 [mass noun] a visible suspension of carbon or other particles in air, typically one emitted from a burning substance:bonfire smoke
2an act of smoking tobacco:I’m dying for a smoke
informal a cigarette or cigar:you’re going to buy some smokes of your own
3 (the Smoke or the Big Smoke)British informal a big city, especially London:she was offered a job in the Smoke
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1 [no object] emit smoke or visible vapour:heat the oil until it just smokes
2 [no object] inhale and exhale the smoke of tobacco or a drug:Janine was sitting at the kitchen table smoking [with object]:he smoked forty cigarettes a day
3 [with object] treat, fumigate, or cleanse by exposure to smoke.
(often as adjective smoked) cure or preserve (meat or fish) by exposure to smoke:smoked salmon
(usually as adjective smoked) treat (glass) so as to darken it:the smoked glass of his lenses
subdue (insects, especially bees) by exposing them to smoke:they then smoke the bees until they are stupid
(smoke someone/thing out) drive someone or something out of a place by using smoke:we will fire the roof and smoke him out
(smoke someone out) force someone to make something known:as the press smokes him out on other human rights issues, he will be revealed as a social conservative
4 [with object]North American informal kill (someone) by shooting:they gotta go smoke this person
defeat overwhelmingly in a fight or contest:I got smoked in that fight
5 [with object] archaic make fun of (someone):we baited her and smoked her
go up in smoke
informal be destroyed by fire:three hundred tons of straw went up in smoke
(of a plan) come to nothing:more than one dream is about to go up in smoke
no smoke without fire (North American also where there's smoke there's fire)
proverb there’s always some reason for a rumour.
smoke and mirrors
North American the obscuring or embellishing of the truth of a situation with misleading or irrelevant information:the budget process is an exercise in smoke and mirrors
[with reference to illusion created by conjuring tricks]
smoke like a chimney
smoke tobacco incessantly:ironic—you smoke like a chimney and the lungs are OK
