smoke
The visible vapor/vapour, gases, and fine particles given off by burning or smoldering material.
Noun 4 meanings
The visible vapor/vapour, gases, and fine particles given off by burning or smoldering material.
A cigarette.
“Can I bum a smoke off you?”
Anything to smoke (e.g. cigarettes, marijuana, etc.)
“Hey, you got some smoke?”
An instance of smoking a cigarette, cigar, etc.; the duration of this act.
“I'm going out for a smoke.”
Verb 4 meanings
To inhale and exhale the smoke from a burning cigarette or cigar, burning material in a pipe, etc.
“He's smoking his pipe.”
To inhale and exhale tobacco smoke.
“Do you smoke?”
To give off smoke.
“My old truck was still smoking even after the repairs.”
To preserve or prepare (food) for consumption by treating with smoke.
“You'll need to smoke the meat for several hours.”
Etymology
From Middle English smoke, from Old English smoca (“smoke”), probably a derivative of the verb (see below). Related to Dutch smook (“smoke”), Middle Low German smôk (“smoke”), German Schmauch (“smoke (from a gun barrel)”).
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SMOKE at a glance
SMOKE has 5 letters and scores 11 points in Scrabble (S 1 + M 3 + O 1 + K 5 + E 1) and 12 in Words With Friends, before board bonuses. It ranks #2,127 by how often it appears in everyday English. It is valid in ENABLE, NWL2023, Collins/SOWPODS.
Rhymes with smoke
All rhymesOne letter away
- SPOKE11
- STOKE9
- SMOKY14
- SMOTE7
- SNOKE9
- SMOKO11
- SMORE7
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