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   smoke

   /sməʊk/

   noun

   • 1. a visible suspension of carbon or other particles in air, typically one emitted from a burning substance: "bonfire smoke"
   • 2. an act of smoking tobacco: "I'm dying for a smoke"
   • ▪ a cigarette or cigar: informal "you're going to buy some smokes of your own"
   • 3. a big city, especially London: informal British "she was offered a job in the Smoke"

   verb

   • 1. emit smoke or visible vapour: "heat the oil until it just smokes" Similar smoulderemit smokeemit fumesarchaic:reek
   • 2. suck on the end of a lit cigarette, cigar, pipe, etc. so as to inhale and exhale the smoke produced by the burning tobacco into the mouth: "she was sitting at the kitchen table smoking" Similar puff ondraw onpull oninhalelight upinformal:take a drag ofdrag on
   • ▪ inhale and exhale the smoke produced by burning (a narcotic drug): "a year later she began smoking heroin"
   • 3. treat, fumigate, or cleanse by exposure to smoke.
   • ▪ cure or preserve (food, especially meat or fish) by exposure to smoke: "their salmon and trout are smoked over peat and hand-sliced" Similar curepreservedry
   • ▪ subdue (insects, especially bees) by exposing them to smoke: "traditionally, the beekeeper must smoke the bees to calm them"
   • 4. kill (someone) by shooting: informal North American "they gotta go smoke this person"
   • ▪ defeat overwhelmingly in a fight or contest: "I got smoked in that fight"
   • 5. make fun of (someone): archaic "we baited her and smoked her"

   Word Origin Old Englishsmoca (noun), smocian (verb), from the Germanic base of smēocan ‘emit smoke’; related to Dutch smook and German Schmauch.

   Derivatives

   • 1. smokable adjective

   Scrabble Points: 11

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