smoke
v.
give off smoke; give off a smokelike vapor; inhale and exhale tobacco smoke; preserve and flavor food by exposing it to wood smoke; darken glass using smoke; travel quickly (Slang)
n.
visible vapor given off by burning material; something which resembles smoke; something insubstantial; act of smoking tobacco; cigar, cigarette (Slang); something which conceals or hides
Smoke
smoken
v.
smock, dress in a loose fitting garment; sew decorative pleats (onto clothes or fabric)
Smoke
(v. t.)
To subject to the operation of smoke, for the purpose of annoying or driving out; -- often with out; as, to smoke a woodchuck out of his burrow.
(v. t.)
To smell out; to hunt out; to find out; to detect.
(v. t.)
To ridicule to the face; to quiz.
(v. t.)
To inhale and puff out the smoke of, as tobacco; to burn or use in smoking; as, to smoke a pipe or a cigar.
(v. t.)
To fill or scent with smoke; hence, to fill with incense; to perfume.
(v. t.)
To apply smoke to; to hang in smoke; to disinfect, to cure, etc., by smoke; as, to smoke or fumigate infected clothing; to smoke beef or hams for preservation.
(n.)
To suffer severely; to be punished.
(n.)
To raise a dust or smoke by rapid motion.
(n.)
To emit smoke; to throw off volatile matter in the form of vapor or exhalation; to reek.
(n.)
To draw into the mouth the smoke of tobacco burning in a pipe or in the form of a cigar, cigarette, etc.; to habitually use tobacco in this manner.
(n.)
The visible exhalation, vapor, or substance that escapes, or expelled, from a burning body, especially from burning vegetable matter, as wood, coal, peat, or the like.
(n.)
The act of smoking, esp. of smoking tobacco; as, to have a smoke.
(n.)
That which resembles smoke; a vapor; a mist.
(n.)
Hence, to burn; to be kindled; to rage.
(n.)
Anything unsubstantial, as idle talk.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), edited by Noah Porter.
About
smoke
1. To
crash or blow up, usually spectacularly. "The new version smoked, just like the last one." Used for both hardware (where it often describes an actual physical event), and software (where it's merely colourful).
2. [Automotive slang] To be conspicuously fast. "That processor really smokes." Compare
magic smoke.
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