Définition "Smoke" dans le dictionnaire Collins English Dictionary & Thesaurus

Smoke n the. short for → Big Smoke

Big Smoke n
♦ the
Informal a large city, esp. London

chain-smoke vb
to smoke (cigarettes, etc.) continually, esp. lighting one from the preceding one
♦ chain smoker n

smoke n

1 the product of combustion, consisting of fine particles of carbon carried by hot gases and air

2 any cloud of fine particles suspended in a gas

a the act of smoking tobacco or other substances, esp. in a pipe or as a cigarette or cigar

b the duration of smoking such substances

4 Informal

a a cigarette or cigar

b a substance for smoking, such as pipe tobacco or marijuana

5 something with no concrete or lasting substance
everything turned to smoke

6 a thing or condition that obscures

7 any of various colours similar to that of smoke, esp. a dark grey with a bluish, yellowish, or greenish tinge

8 ♦ go or end up in smoke

a to come to nothing

b to burn up vigorously

c to flare up in anger vb

9 to emit smoke or the like, sometimes excessively or in the wrong place

10 to draw in on (a burning cigarette, etc.) and exhale the smoke

11 Slang to use marijuana for smoking

12 to bring (oneself) into a specified state by smoking

13 to subject or expose to smoke

14 to cure (meat, fish, cheese, etc.) by treating with smoke

15 to fumigate or purify the air of (rooms, etc.)

16 to darken (glass, etc.) by exposure to smoke

17 Slang to move, drive, ride, etc., very fast

18 Obsolete to tease or mock

19 Archaic to suspect or detect, (See also) → smoke out (Old English smoca (n); related to Middle Dutch smieken to emit smoke)
♦ smokable, smokeable adj

smoke bomb n
a device that emits large quantities of smoke when ignited

smoke-dried adj
(of fish, meat, etc.) cured in smoke

smoke out vb

1 to subject to smoke in order to drive out of hiding

2 to bring into the open; expose to the public
they smoked out the plot

smoke screen n

1 (Military) a cloud of smoke produced by artificial means to obscure movements or positions

2 something said or done in order to hide the truth

smoke tree n

1 an anacardiaceous shrub, Cotinus coggygria, of S Europe and Asia, having clusters of yellowish feathery flowers

2 a related tree, Cotinus americanus, of the southern U.S.
(C19: so named because of the similarity between its flower clusters and a cloud of smoke)