TO SMOKE

Definition: SMOKE

SMOKE

Noun

1. A cloud of fine particles suspended in a gas.

2. A hot vapor containing fine particles of carbon being produced by combustion; "the fire produced a tower of black smoke that could be seen for miles".

3. An indication of some hidden activity; "with all that smoke there must be a fire somewhere".

4. (informal) something with no concrete substance; "his dreams all turned to smoke"; "it was just smoke and mirrors".

5. Tobacco leaves that have been made into a cylinder.

6. A soft drug consisting of the dried leaves of the hemp plant; smoked or chewed for euphoric effect.

7. The act of smoking tobacco or other substances; "he went outside for a smoke"; "smoking stinks".

8. (baseball) a pitch thrown with maximum velocity; "he swung late on the fastball"; "he showed batters nothing but smoke".

Verb

1. Inhale and exhale smoke from cigarettes, cigars, pipes; "We never smoked marijuana"; "Do you smoke?".

2. Emit fumes.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Slang in 1811

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Crosswords: TO SMOKE

I want you to smoke one after you get a little. (The Man with One Red Shoe; writing credit: Francis Veber; Yves Robert)

Do you think anybody's ever tried to smoke dried mushrooms? (The Mole People; writing credit: László Görög)

Teach it to smoke, Duh. (Clerks; writing credit: Paul Dini; Brian Kelley)

To smoke, and have coffee--and if you do it together, it's fantastic. (Himmel über Berlin, Der; writing credit: Peter Handke; Wim Wenders)

If you continue to smoke in here, you'll spend the rest of your life believing you are a six year old girl. (X2; writing credit: Zak Penn; David Hayter)

Who you think taught you to smoke trees (Forgot About Dre; performing artist: Dr. dre)

Now I'ma float on, roll me somethin' to smoke on (Count It Off; performing artist: Jade)

Come down to smoke and ash (HELP ME; performing artist: Joni Mitchell)

And I stepped outside to smoke myself a J (Late In The Evening; performing artist: Paul Simon)

Dreamy Dud Resolves Not to Smoke (1915)

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Books

• The Amazing Cigar: The Cigar Connoisseur's Secrets to Smoke Rings, Mystifications & Other Cool Things (reference)

  (more book examples)

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18-year-old Sean Marsee was too smart to smoke. : But Sean's doctor believes tobacco killed him. Credit: National Library of Medicine.

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Health

If a deficiency is found, it is critical for these people not to smoke. (references)

Behavioral research is beginning to explain how social influences, such as observing adults or other peers smoking, affect whether adolescents begin to smoke cigarettes. (references)

Travel

Mexico

Mexicans are accustomed to smoke and drink freely at business meals. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Expressions using "TO SMOKE": begin to smoke ♦ To smoke the pipe of peace. Additional references.

Chinese 

燻 (fumigate, scent), 熏 (fumigate, scent), 抽 (to draw out, to pump), 吸煙 . (various references)

German

rauchen (fume, give off smoke, smoke, smoking, to fume). (various references)

Hungarian

odaéget, megsejt (divine, foresaw, foreseen, to divine, to foresee), megfüstöl (smoke, to fumigate), gyanít (suspect, to conjecture, to opine, to presume, to surmise, to suspect, to suspicion), füstöl (fume, fumigate, reek, smoke, smoke-dry, to emit smoke, to fume, to fumigate), elszív (to siphon off), dohányzik (blew, blown, have a smoke, smoke, to blow, to smoke tobacco), bekormoz (blacken, blacken with smoke, smut, to begrime, to grime, to smut, to soot), befüstöl. (various references)

Italian

fumare (fume, reek, smoke, steam). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

喫う, 吸う (to breathe in, to suck). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

すう (figure, grass cutting, hay, number, to breathe in, to suck), くすぶる (to smoulder, to sputter), くゆらす (to puff), ふかす (to accelerate, to behave as..., to rev up, to sit up late, to steam), いぶす (to fumigate, to oxidize), いぶる (to smoulder, to sputter), けむる. (various references)

Pig Latin

otay okesmay.(various references)

Portuguese

fumar (fume, puff, reek, smoke). (various references)

Portuguese Brazilian

fumar. (various references)

Spanish

fumar (smoke, smoking). (various references)

tar. (various references)

fumigare, fumo. (various references)

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-2 letters: kotos, mokes, moose, moots, moste, motes, smoke, smote, stoke, stook, tokes, tomes.

-3 letters: keto, koto, moke, moos, moot, mosk, most, mote, mots, okes, oots, soke, some, sook, soot, stem, toes, toke, tome, toms, took, toom.

-4 letters: ems, kos, met, moo, mos, mot, oes, oke, oms, oot, ose, set, som, sot, toe, tom, too.

+1 letter: outsmoke, smokepot.

+2 letters: folkmotes, outsmoked, outsmokes, smokepots.

+3 letters: kinetosome, motorbikes, toolmakers.

+4 letters: kinetosomes, leukotomies.

+5 letters: keratotomies.