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smoke-o

smoke-o is the alternative form of smoko.

Meaning of smoko

Noun

smoko (plural smokos)

  1. (Australia, New Zealand, colloquial) A cigarette break from work or military duty; a brief cessation of work to have a smoke, or (more generally) to take a small rest, snack etc.
    • We saw the innards of a submarine, and afterwards, at smoke-oh, I entertained the men with my story of the bagman's battle with John Oliver O'Dowd.1985, Peter Carey, Illywhacker, Faber and Faber, published 2003, page 516
  2. (Falkland Islands) A tea break or coffee break with cakes, snacks, etc.

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Questions about smoke-o

What is smoke-o the alternative form of?
Smoke-o is the alternative form of smoko.

Words near smoke-o in the dictionary

  1. smoke-free
  2. smoke-hole
  3. smoke-holes
  4. smoke-in
  5. smoke-ins
  6. smoke-o
  7. smoke-oh
  8. smoke-ohs
  9. smoke-screen
  10. smoke-screens
  11. smoke-shade

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Adapted from Wiktionary: smoke-o (page history and authors); smoko (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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