smoke

noun

• 1 [mass noun] a visible suspension of carbon or other particles in air, typically one emitted from a burning substance:bonfire smoke

• 2an act of smoking tobacco:I’m dying for a smoke
• informal a cigarette or cigar: you’re going to buy some smokes of your own

• 3 (the Smoke or the Big Smoke) British informal a big city, especially London:she was offered a job in the Smoke

verb

• 1 [no object] emit smoke or visible vapour:heat the oil until it just smokes

• 2 [no object] inhale and exhale the smoke of tobacco or a drug:Janine was sitting at the kitchen table smoking [with object]:he smoked forty cigarettes a day

• 3 [with object] treat, fumigate, or cleanse by exposure to smoke.
• (often as adjective smoked) cure or preserve (meat or fish) by exposure to smoke:smoked salmon
• (usually as adjective smoked) treat (glass) so as to darken it:the smoked glass of his lenses
• subdue (insects, especially bees) by exposing them to smoke: they then smoke the bees until they are stupid
• (smoke someone/thing out) drive someone or something out of a place by using smoke:we will fire the roof and smoke him out
• (smoke someone out) force someone to make something known:as the press smokes him out on other human rights issues, he will be revealed as a social conservative

• 4 [with object] North American informal kill (someone) by shooting: they gotta go smoke this person
• defeat overwhelmingly in a fight or contest: I got smoked in that fight

• 5 [with object] archaic make fun of (someone): we baited her and smoked her