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smoke-filled rooms

smoke-filled rooms is the plural of smoke-filled room.

Meaning of smoke-filled room

Noun

smoke-filled room (plural smoke-filled rooms)

  1. (idiomatic) A place where powerful people meet to decide a matter in secret, often of a political nature.
    • Near-synonym: backroom (as a meeting place of crooked insiders)
    Synonyms:
    backroom[insider]]s>
  2. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see smoke, filled, room.

Questions about smoke-filled rooms

What is smoke-filled rooms the plural of?
Smoke-filled rooms is the plural of smoke-filled room.

Words near smoke-filled rooms in the dictionary

  1. smoke-easy
  2. smoke-eater
  3. smoke-eaters
  4. smoke-filled
  5. smoke-filled room
  6. smoke-filled rooms
  7. smoke-free
  8. smoke-hole
  9. smoke-holes
  10. smoke-in
  11. smoke-ins

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