smoke

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   the act of smoking tobacco or other substances

   I went outside for a smoke.

2. 2
   noun

   something with no concrete substance

   Their dreams all turned to smoke.

3. 3
   noun

   an indication of some hidden activity

   with all that smoke there must be a fire somewhere

4. 4
   noun

   a hot vapor containing fine particles of carbon being produced by combustion

   the fire produced a tower of black smoke that could be seen for miles

5. 5
   verb

   inhale and exhale smoke from cigarettes, cigars, pipes

   We never smoked marijuana

6. 6
   noun

   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 smoke, to pound their way up the last few hundred feet of gradient alongside the platform.

7. 7
   noun

   A cigarette.

   Can I bum a smoke off you?; I need to go buy some smokes.

8. 8
   noun

   Anything to smoke (e.g. cigarettes, marijuana, etc.)

   Hey, you got some smoke?

Etymology

From Middle English smoken, from Old English smocian (“to smoke, emit smoke; fumigate”), from Proto-West Germanic *smokōn, from Proto-Germanic *smukōną (“to smoke”), ablaut derivative of Proto-Germanic *smaukaną (“to smoke”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)mewg- (“to smoke”). Cognate with Saterland Frisian smookje (“to smoke”), West Frisian smoke (“to smoke”), Dutch smoken (“to smoke”), Low German smöken (“to smoke”), German Low German smoken (“to smoke”). Related also to Old English smēocan (“to smoke, emit smoke; fumigate”), Bavarian schmuckelen (“to smell bad, reek”).