smoke

Forms

1.The visible vapor/vapour, gases, and fine particles given off by burning or smoldering material.
- Where there is smoke, there is fire.
2.A cigarette.(colloquial)
- Can I bum a smoke off you?
- I need to go buy some smokes.
3.An instance of smoking a cigarette, cigar, etc.; the duration of this act.(colloquial)
- I lit a pipe and had a good long smoke, and went on watching.
- I'm going out for a smoke.
4.Anything to smoke (e.g. cigarettes, marijuana, etc.)(colloquial)
- ERCS Guard: Got a smoke? We're all out.
- Hey, you got some smoke?

1.To inhale and exhale the smoke from a burning cigarette or cigar, burning material in a pipe, etc.
- Her dad smoked various brands when he was younger.
2.To inhale and exhale tobacco smoke.
- To Edward […] he was terrible, nerve-inflaming, poisonously asphyxiating. He sat rocking himself in the late Mr. Churchill's swing chair, smoking and twaddling.
3.To give off smoke.
- Hard by a cottage chimney smokes.
- "Dry tobacco burns even, and therefore smokes cool."
- My old truck was still smoking even after the repairs.
4.To preserve or prepare (food) for consumption by treating with smoke.
- You'll need to smoke the meat for several hours.

Uncommon· #2501

From Middle English smoke, from Old English smoca (“smoke”), probably a derivative of the verb (see below).

Related to Dutch smook (“smoke”), Middle Low German smôk (“smoke”), German Schmauch (“smoke (from a gun barrel)”).