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What does smoke mean?

Looking for the meaning or definition of the word smoke? Here's what it means.

Noun
  1. (uncountable) The visible vapor/vapour, gases, and fine particles given off by burning or smoldering material.
  2. (colloquial, countable) A cigarette.
  3. (colloquial, uncountable) Anything to smoke (e.g. cigarettes, marijuana, etc.)
  4. (colloquial, countable, never plural) An instance of smoking a cigarette, cigar, etc.; the duration of this act.
  5. (uncountable, figuratively) A fleeting illusion; something insubstantial, evanescent, unreal, transitory, or without result.
  6. (uncountable, figuratively) Something used to obscure or conceal; an obscuring condition; see also smoke and mirrors.
  7. (uncountable) A light grey colour/color tinted with blue.
  8. (military, uncountable) 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, smoke curtain, smoke haze, and smoke deception. Thus it is an artificial aerosol.
  9. (baseball, slang) A fastball.
Verb
  1. (transitive) To inhale and exhale the smoke from a burning cigarette, cigar, pipe, etc.
  2. (intransitive) To inhale and exhale tobacco smoke.
  3. (intransitive) To give off smoke.
  4. To preserve or prepare (food) for consumption by treating with smoke.
  5. (transitive, obsolete) To fill or scent with smoke; hence, to fill with incense; to perfume.
  6. (slang) To perform (e.g. music) energetically or skillfully. Almost always in present participle form.
  7. (US, Canada, New Zealand, slang) To beat someone at something.
  8. (US, slang) To kill, especially with a gun.
  9. (obsolete, transitive) To smell out; to hunt out; to find out; to detect.
  10. (slang, obsolete, transitive) To ridicule to the face; to mock.
  11. To burn; to be kindled; to rage.
  12. To raise a dust or smoke by rapid motion.
  13. To suffer severely; to be punished.
  14. (transitive, US military slang) To punish for a minor offense by excessive physical exercise.
Adjective
  1. Of the colour known as smoke.
  2. Made of or with smoke.
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