smoke

1 noun

1 (U) grey gas that is produced by something burning: Clouds of black smoke belched from the building. | cigarette smoke

2 (countable usually singular) an act of smoking a cigarette etc: a cup of coffee and a smoke

3 (C) slang a cigarette or drugs that are smoked

4 the Smoke BrE, AustrE London or any large town or city

5 go up in smoke informal if your plans go up in smoke, you cannot do what you intended to do

6 there's no smoke without fire spoken used to say that if something bad is being said about someone, it is probably partly true

— smokeless adjective 2 verb

1 (I, T) to suck or breathe in smoke from a cigarette, pipe etc: I haven't smoked for over two years.

2 (T) to breathe in smoke from burning an illegal drug: smoking dope

3 (I) if something smokes it has smoke coming out of it: a smoking chimney

4 (I) if a fire smokes it lets too much smoke into a room

5 (T) to give fish and meat a special taste by hanging it in smoke

smoke sb/sth out phrasal verb (T)

1 to fill a place with smoke to force someone or something to come out

2 to discover who is causing a particular problem and force them to make themselves known: an attempt to smoke out and defeat the subversive forces in government