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Smoking Definition–noun | 1. | the visible vapor and gases given off by a burning or smoldering substance, esp. the gray, brown, or blackish mixture of gases and suspended carbon particles resulting from the combustion of wood, peat, coal, or other organic m
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atter. | | 2. | something resembling this, as vapor or mist, flying particles, etc. | | 3. | something unsubstantial, evanescent, or without result: Their hopes and dreams proved to be smoke. | | 4. | an obscuring condition: the smoke of controversy. | | 5. | an act or spell of smoking something, esp. tobacco: They had a smoke during the intermission. | | 6. | something for smoking, as a cigar or cigarette: This is the best smoke on the market. | | 8. | Slang. a homemade drink consisting of denatured alcohol and water. | | 9. | Physics, Chemistry. a system of solid particles suspended in a gaseous medium. | | 10. | a bluish or brownish gray color. | –verb (used without object) | 11. | to give off or emit smoke, as in burning. | | 12. | to give out smoke offensively or improperly, as a stove. | | 13. | to send forth steam or vapor, dust, or the like. | | 14. | to draw into the mouth and puff out the smoke of tobacco or the like, as from a pipe or cigarette. | | 15. | Slang. to ride or travel with great speed. | –verb (used with object) | 17. | to draw into the mouth and puff out the smoke of: to smoke tobacco. | | 18. | to use (a pipe, cigarette, etc.) in this process. | | 20. | to fumigate (rooms, furniture, etc.). | | 21. | to cure (meat, fish, etc.) by exposure to smoke. | | 22. | to color or darken by smoke. | —Verb phrase | 23. | smoke out, | a. | to drive from a refuge by means of smoke. | | b. | to force into public view or knowledge; reveal: to smoke out the leaders of the spy ring. | | —Idiom | 24. | go up or end in smoke, to terminate without producing a result; be unsuccessful: All our dreams went up in smoke. | |
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