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The Meaning of smoke

  • (n.) The visible exhalation, vapor, or substance that escapes, or expelled, from a burning body, especially from burning vegetable matter, as wood, coal, peat, or the like.
  • (n.) That which resembles smoke; a vapor; a mist.
  • (n.) Anything unsubstantial, as idle talk.
  • (n.) The act of smoking, esp. of smoking tobacco; as, to have a smoke.
  • (n.) To emit smoke; to throw off volatile matter in the form of vapor or exhalation; to reek.
  • (n.) Hence, to burn; to be kindled; to rage.
  • (n.) To raise a dust or smoke by rapid motion.
  • (n.) To draw into the mouth the smoke of tobacco burning in a pipe or in the form of a cigar, cigarette, etc.; to habitually use tobacco in this manner.
  • (n.) To suffer severely; to be punished.
  • (v. t.) To apply smoke to; to hang in smoke; to disinfect, to cure, etc., by smoke; as, to smoke or fumigate infected clothing; to smoke beef or hams for preservation.
  • (v. t.) To fill or scent with smoke; hence, to fill with incense; to perfume.
  • (v. t.) To smell out; to hunt out; to find out; to detect.
  • (v. t.) To ridicule to the face; to quiz.
  • (v. t.) To inhale and puff out the smoke of, as tobacco; to burn or use in smoking; as, to smoke a pipe or a cigar.
  • (v. t.) To subject to the operation of smoke, for the purpose of annoying or driving out; -- often with out; as, to smoke a woodchuck out of his burrow.

Synonyms

fume , smoking , roll of tobacco , pot , grass , green goddess , dope , weed , gage , sess , sens , skunk , locoweed , Mary Jane , smoking , fastball , heater , hummer , bullet , fume

Homophones

smoak

Rhymes

artichoke , awoke , backstroke , baroque , bloke , boak , boake , boeck , boeke , bouck , broke , choke , cloak , cloke , coke , countryfolk , croak , croke , doak , doke , droke , evoke , folk , goecke , goeke , gohlke , hoek , hoke , holyoke , invoke , joke , keystroke , knoke , koch , koke , kolk , larocque , laroque , misspoke , moacq , moak , moke , noack , oak , poke , polk , provoke , revoke , roanoke , roque , schmoke , schoeck , schroeck , scoke , sloke , slowpoke , smoak , snoke , soak , spoke , stoke , stroke , szoke , townsfolk , windhoek , woke , wolk , wouk , yoak , yoke , yolk