1. A hot vapour containing fine particles of carbon being produced by combustion
   "the fire produced a tower of black smoke that could be seen for miles";
   - smoking
    
2. A cloud of fine particles suspended in a gas
   "Smoke from the campfire drifted through the trees";
   - fume
    
3. [informal] Finely ground tobacco wrapped in paper; for smoking
   "he took a drag on his cigarette and expelled the smoke slowly";
   - cigarette, cigaret [US], coffin nail [informal], fag [Brit, informal], gasper [Brit, informal], ciggy [Brit, informal], durry [Austral, informal], cig [informal]
    
4. The act of smoking tobacco or other substances
   "he went outside for a smoke";
   - smoking
    
5. An indication of some hidden activity
   "with all that smoke there must be a fire somewhere"
    
6. Something with no concrete substance
   "his dreams all turned to smoke"; "it was just smoke and mirrors"
    
7. (baseball) a pitch thrown with maximum velocity
   "he showed batters nothing but smoke";
   - fastball, heater, hummer, bullet [N. Amer]
    
8. [slang] A street name for marijuana
   "He was arrested for possession of smoke";
   - pot [slang], grass [slang], green goddess [slang], dope [slang], weed [slang], gage [slang], sess [slang], sens [slang], skunk [slang], locoweed [N. Amer, slang], Mary Jane [slang], bud [N. Amer, slang]

1. Inhale and exhale smoke from cigarettes, cigars, pipes
   "We never smoked marijuana"; "Do you smoke?"
    
2. Emit a cloud of fine particles
   "The chimney was smoking";
   - fume
    
3. Treat with fumes, expose to fumes, especially with the aim of disinfecting or eradicating pests
   "The proper way to smoke a room is to close the windows and doors";
   - fumigate, fume
    
4. (of food) preserve or flavour by smoking
   "smoke the fish"
    
5. [N. Amer, informal] Beat thoroughly and conclusively in a competition or fight
   "We smoked the other team on Sunday!";
   - cream [informal], clobber [informal], drub [informal], thrash [informal], lick [informal], paste [informal], blow away [informal], muller [Brit, informal], marmelize [Brit, informal], marmelise [Brit, informal], trounce, whale [N. Amer, informal], hammer [informal], wipe the floor [informal], marmalise [Brit, informal], beat hollow [informal], slaughter [informal], marmalize [Brit, informal], shellack [N. Amer, informal], shellac [N. Amer, informal]
    
6. [N. Amer, informal] Kill by firing a gun
   "The soldier smoked the enemy sniper";
   - shoot, pip [informal], blow away [informal]

Derived forms: smoked, smoking, smokes

Type of: aerosol, beat, beat out, breathing, cannabis, crush, dagga [S.Africa], delivery, emit, evaporation, external respiration, ganja, give off, give out, habituate, indicant, indication, insubstantiality, kef, kif, kill, marihuana, marijuana, pitch, process, respiration, roll of tobacco, shell [US], treat, trounce, use, vanquish, vapor [US], vaporisation [Brit], vaporization, vapour [Brit, Cdn], ventilation

Encyclopedia: Smoke, Richard