smoke

noun

• a visible suspension of carbon or other particles in air, typically one emitted from a burning substance:bonfire smoke
• an act of smoking tobacco:I’m dying for a smoke
• informal a cigarette or cigar.

verb

• 1 [no object] emit smoke or visible vapor:heat the oil until it just smokes (as adjective smoking)they huddled around his smoking fire in the winter damp
• inhale and exhale the smoke of tobacco or a drug:Janine was sitting at the kitchen table smoking (as noun smoking)the effect of smoking on health [with object]:he smoked forty cigarettes a day

• 2 [with object] (often as adjective smoked) cure or preserve (meat or fish) by exposure to smoke:smoked salmon
• treat (glass) so as to darken it:the smoked glass of his lenses
• fumigate, cleanse, or purify by exposure to smoke.
• subdue (insects, especially bees) by exposing them to smoke.
• (smoke someone/something 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

• 3 [with object] informal kill (someone) by shooting.
• defeat overwhelmingly in a fight or contest.

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