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smokescreens

smokescreens is the plural 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.

Questions about smokescreens

What is smokescreens the plural of?
Smokescreens is the plural of smokescreen.

Words near smokescreens in the dictionary

  1. smokes the whole pack
  2. smokes up
  3. smokescape
  4. smokescapes
  5. smokescreen
  6. smokescreens
  7. smokeshop
  8. smokeshops
  9. smokeshow
  10. smokeshows
  11. smokesploitation

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