- the visible vapor and gases given off by a burning or smoldering substance, especially the gray, brown, or blackish mixture of gases and suspended carbon particles resulting from the combustion of wood, peat, coal, or other organic matter.
- something resembling this, as vapor or mist, flying particles, etc.
- something unsubstantial, evanescent, or without result: Their hopes and dreams proved to be smoke.
- an obscuring condition: the smoke of controversy.
- an act or spell of smoking something, especially tobacco: They had a smoke during the intermission.
- something for smoking, as a cigar or cigarette: This is the best smoke on the market.
- marijuana.
- a homemade drink consisting of denatured alcohol and water.
- a system of solid particles suspended in a gaseous medium.
- a bluish or brownish gray color.
- to give off or emit smoke, as in burning.
- to give out smoke offensively or improperly, as a stove.
- to send forth steam or vapor, dust, or the like.
- to draw into the mouth and puff out the smoke of tobacco or the like, as from a pipe or cigarette.
- to ride or travel with great speed.
- Australian.
- to flee.
- to abscond.
- to draw into the mouth and puff out the smoke of: to smoke tobacco.
- to use (a pipe, cigarette, etc.) in this process.
- to expose to smoke.
- to fumigate (rooms, furniture, etc.).
- to cure (meat, fish, etc.) by exposure to smoke.
- to color or darken by smoke.
- smoke out,
- to drive from a refuge by means of smoke.
- to force into public view or knowledge; reveal: to smoke out the leaders of the spy ring.
- to terminate without producing a result; be unsuccessful: All our dreams went up in smoke.
- the product of combustion, consisting of fine particles of carbon carried by hot gases and air
- any cloud of fine particles suspended in a gas
- the act of smoking tobacco or other substances, esp in a pipe or as a cigarette or cigar
- the duration of smoking such substances
- informal
- a cigarette or cigar
- a substance for smoking, such as pipe tobacco or marijuana
- something with no concrete or lasting substance
- a thing or condition that obscures
- any of various colours similar to that of smoke, esp a dark grey with a bluish, yellowish, or greenish tinge
- go up in smoke or end up in smoke
- to come to nothing
- to burn up vigorously
- to flare up in anger
- to emit smoke or the like, sometimes excessively or in the wrong place
- to draw in on (a burning cigarette, etc) and exhale the smoke
- to use tobacco for smoking
- to use marijuana for smoking
- to bring (oneself) into a specified state by smoking
- to subject or expose to smoke
- to cure (meat, fish, cheese, etc) by treating with smoke
- to fumigate or purify the air of (rooms, etc)
- to darken (glass, etc) by exposure to smoke
- to move, drive, ride, etc, very fast
- to tease or mock
- to suspect or detect
- the Smoke short for Big Smoke