smokenoun
uk/sməʊk/us/smoʊk/smoke noun (GREY GAS)
B1 [ U ] the grey, black, or white mixture of gas and very small pieces of carbon that is produced when something burns:
to be destroyed by burning:
Something that goes up in smoke fails to produce the result that was wanted:
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- The smoke made me cough.
- The alarm should go off automatically as soon as smoke is detected.
- I saw her through a haze of cigarette smoke.
- I heard a loud bang and then saw black smoke.
- Breathing in other people's cigarette smoke is bad for you .
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Products of fire
- ash
- cinder
- clinker
- ember
- fumes
- smokeless
- smoky
- smut
- soot
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smoke noun (CIGARETTE)
[ S ] the act of smoking a cigarette:
[ C ] informal a cigarette:
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Tobacco & smoking
- baccy
- butt
- cheroot
- cig
- cigarette butt
- cigarette paper
- e-cigarette
- light (sth) up
- nicotine
- nicotine patch
- non-smoker
- non-smoking
- pipe
- roll-your-own
- second-hand smoke
- smoker
- smoking
- stub
- tar
- tobacconist
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smoke noun (CITY)
any large city, especially London, Sydney, or Melbourne:
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Towns & regions: towns, cities & villages (general)
- aerotropolis
- backwater
- bedroom community
- Cantabrigian
- capital
- conurbation
- county borough
- dormitory town
- ghost town
- Greater
- hill station
- hometown
- megacity
- metropolis
- one-horse town
- port
- settlement
- small-town
- town
- urbanite
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Idiom(s)
smokeverb
uk/sməʊk/us/smoʊk/smoke verb (BREATHE SMOKE)
A1 [ I or T ] to breathe smoke into the mouth and usually lungs from a cigarette, pipe, etc.:
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- Fewer people smoke these days than used to.
- In the interests of safety, please do not smoke.
- She doesn't drink or smoke and I'm sure she'll outlive us all.
- She can smoke - I don't have a problem with that.
- He used to smoke 40 cigarettes a day.
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Tobacco & smoking
- baccy
- butt
- cheroot
- cig
- cigarette butt
- cigarette paper
- e-cigarette
- light (sth) up
- nicotine
- nicotine patch
- non-smoker
- non-smoking
- pipe
- roll-your-own
- second-hand smoke
- smoker
- smoking
- stub
- tar
- tobacconist
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smoke verb (GREY GAS)
[ I ] to produce smoke as a result of industrial activity or of something such as an electrical fault:
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Burning, burnt & on fire
- ablaze
- alight
- blaze
- burned out
- burnt
- burnt out
- burst
- char
- flame
- flammable
- forest fire
- frazzled
- go up in flames idiom
- incinerate
- inextinguishable
- scald
- sear
- singe
- smolder
- spontaneous combustion
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smoke verb (PRESERVE)
[ T ] to preserve meat, fish, or cheese using smoke from burning wood:
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Preserving & storing food
- bin
- bread basket
- bread bin
- brine
- caddy
- defrost
- dried
- foil
- food technology
- freeze
- freeze-dry
- glacé
- preserve
- processed
- reconstitute
- refrigerate
- saltpetre
- souse
- Tupperware
- vacuum-packed
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