| smoke | |
| 1. subst. The visible vapor/vapour, gases, and fine particles given off by burning or smoldering material. | |
| 2. subst. (colloquial) A cigarette. | |
| Can I bum a smoke off you?; I need to go buy some smokes. | |
| 3. subst. (colloquial) Anything to smoke (e.g. cigarettes, marijuana, etc.) | |
| Hey, you got some smoke? | |
| 4. subst. (colloquial, never plural) An instance of smoking a cigarette, cigar, etc.; the duration of this act. | |
| I'm going out for a smoke. | |
| 5. subst. (figuratively) A fleeting illusion; something insubstantial, evanescent, unreal, transitory, or without result. | |
| The excitement behind the new candidate proved to be smoke. | |
| 6. subst. (figuratively) Something used to obscure or conceal; an obscuring condition; see also smoke and mirrors. | |
| The smoke of controversy. | |
| 7. subst. A light grey colour/color tinted with blue. | |
| (color panel, D6E2E2) | |
| 8. subst. (military) 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 | |
| 9. subst. (baseball, slang) A fastball. | |
| 10. v. To inhale and exhale the smoke from a burning cigarette, cigar, pipe, etc. | |
| He's smoking his pipe. | |
| 11. v. (intransitive) To inhale and exhale tobacco smoke. | |
| Do you smoke? | |
| 12. v. (intransitive) To give off smoke. | |
| My old truck was still smoking even after the repairs. | |
| 13. v. To preserve or prepare (food) for consumption by treating with smoke. | |
| You'll need to smoke the meat for several hours. | |
| 14. v. (transitive, obsolete) To fill or scent with smoke; hence, to fill with incense; to perfume. | |
| 15. v. (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. | |
| 16. v. (US, Canada NZ slang) To beat someone at something. | |
| We smoked them at rugby. | |
| 17. v. (US, slang) To kill, especially with a gun. | |
| He got smoked by the mob. | |
| 18. v. (obsolete, transitive) To smell out; to hunt out; to find out; to detect. | |
| 19. v. (slang) To ridicule to the face; to mock. | |
| 20. v. To burn; to be kindled; to rage. | |
| 21. v. To raise a dust or smoke by rapid motion. | |
| 22. v. To suffer severely; to be punished. | |
| 23. v. (transitive, US military slang) To punish for a minor offense by excessive physical exercise. | |
| 24. adj. Of the colour known as smoke. | |
| 25. adj. Made of or with smoke. | |
