smokes

Noun

smoke (countable and uncountable, plural smokes)

1. (uncountable) The visible vapor/vapour, gases, and fine particles given off by burning or smoldering material.
   • If those were the days, however, when steam was triumphant, they were also the days of smoke. Nowhere was this so apparent as at "Kings Cross (Suburban)" where, one after another, the Great Northern tank engines thumped their way up the incline and emerged from the tunnel, in clouds of steam and...1952 October, C. A. Johns, “One Hundred Years at Kings Cross—1”, in Railway Magazine, page 657
2. (colloquial, countable) A cigarette.
   • Can I bum a smoke off you?

   Synonyms:

   bine, blem, bogie, boagie, butt, cancerette, cancer stick, boon, cig, ciggy

3. (colloquial, uncountable) Anything to smoke (e.g. cigarettes, marijuana, etc.)
   • Hey, you got some smoke?
4. (colloquial, countable, never plural) An instance of smoking a cigarette, cigar, etc.; the duration of this act.
   • I lit a pipe and had a good long smoke, and went on watching.1884 December 10, Mark Twain [pseudonym; Samuel Langhorne Clemens], chapter VII, in The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn: (Tom Sawyer’s Comrade) […], London: Chatto & Windus, […], →OCLC
5. (figuratively, uncountable) A fleeting illusion; something insubstantial, evanescent, unreal, transitory, or without result.
   • The excitement behind the new candidate proved to be smoke.
6. (figuratively, uncountable) Something used to obscure or conceal; an obscuring condition; see also smoke and mirrors.
   • The smoke of controversy.

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