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smoke-screen

smoke-screen is the alternative form of smokescreen.

Meaning of smokescreen

Noun

smokescreen (plural smokescreens)

  1. Smoke used as a disguise, mask or cover, as of troops in battle.
    • Ensign Whitely began to tell of the surprise encounter of Admiral Sprague’s escort-carrier force with the main battle line of the Japanese Navy off Samar, in a chaos of rain squalls and smoke screens.1951, Herman Wouk, The Caine Mutiny, Garden City, NY: Doubleday, Chapter 25, Part 5, p. 284
  2. (figuratively) Anything used metaphorically to conceal or distract.
    • All that talk is just a smokescreen to disguise the fact that he has nothing to say.

Forms of smoke-screen

pluralsmoke-screens

Questions about smoke-screen

What is smoke-screen the alternative form of?
Smoke-screen is the alternative form of smokescreen.

Words near smoke-screen in the dictionary

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

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Adapted from Wiktionary: smoke-screen (page history and authors); smokescreen (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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