A Quick and Simple Dictionary

smoke

1. Noun.  (uncountable) The visible vapor/vapour, gases, and fine particles given off by burning or smoldering material.
2. Noun.  (colloquial, countable) A cigarette.
3. Noun.  (colloquial, countable) An instance of smoking a cigarette, cigar, etc.; the duration of this act.
4. Noun.  (uncountable, figuratively) A fleeting illusion; something insubstantial, evanescent, unreal, transitory, or without result.
5. Noun.  (uncountable, figuratively) Something used to obscure or conceal; an obscuring condition; ''see also'' '''smoke and mirrors'''.
6. Noun.  (uncountable) A light grey colour/color tinted with blue.
7. Noun.  (military, uncountable) A particulate of solid or liquid particles dispersed into the air on the battlefield to degrade enemy ground or for aerial observation. Smoke has many uses--screening smoke, signaling smoke, smoke curtain, smoke haze, and smoke deception. Thus it is an artificial aerosol.
8. Noun.  (baseball, slang) A fastball.
9. Noun.  (British, slang) ('''The Smoke''') London.
10. Verb.  To inhale and exhale the smoke from a burning cigarette, cigar, pipe, etc.
11. Verb.  (intransitive) To inhale and exhale tobacco smoke regularly or habitually.
12. Verb.  (intransitive) To give off smoke.
13. Verb.  To preserve or prepare (food) for consumption by treating with smoke.
14. Verb.  (slang) To perform (e.g. music) energetically or skillfully. Almost always in present participle form.
15. Verb.  (US, slang) To kill, especially with a gun.
16. Adjective.  Of the colour known as smoke.