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smoke-oh

smoke-oh 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.

See all 3 meanings of smoko

Forms of smoke-oh

pluralsmoke-ohs

Origin of smoke-oh

From smoke + -oh.

Questions about smoke-oh

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

Words near smoke-oh in the dictionary

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

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Adapted from Wiktionary: smoke-oh (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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