smoke
/smoʊk/ noun A1- The visible vapor/vapour, gases, and fine particles given off by burning or smoldering material.
- A cigarette. · Can I bum a smoke off you?· I need to go buy some smokes.
- Anything to smoke (e.g. cigarettes, marijuana, etc.) · Hey, you got some smoke?
- An instance of smoking a cigarette, cigar, etc.; the duration of this act. · I'm going out for a smoke.
- A fleeting illusion; something insubstantial, evanescent, unreal, transitory, or without result. · The excitement behind the new candidate proved to be smoke.
- Something used to obscure or conceal; an obscuring condition; see also smoke and mirrors. · The smoke of controversy.
- A light grey color tinted with blue.
- Bother, trouble; problems; hassle. · You better not be giving me no smoke.
Plural smokes
Phrasal verbs and expressions
From the library
The grey smoke towers.
That now you smoke your pipe around,
The door led right into a large kitchen, which was full of smoke from one end to the other: the Duchess was sitting on a three-legged stool in the middle, nursing a baby; the cook was leaning over the fire, stirring a large cauldron which seemed to be full of soup.
The sum is ample for a well-considered meal, a bottle bearing a respectable label, commensurate tips, a smoke, cab fare and the ordinary etceteras.
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