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smoke

1. n. a tobacco cigarette; a pipe of tobacco; a cigar. I think I’ll have a smoke now.

2. n. the act of smoking anything smokable, including drugs. I need a smoke—of anything. I’m going to stop here for a smoke.

3. n. methyl alcohol; bad liquor; any liquor. They call it smoke because when you mix it with water and shake it, it’s cloudy.

4. n. exaggeration; deception. (see also blow smoke, smoke and mirrors.) If the smoke is too obvious, they’ll just get suspicious.

5. tv. to annihilate someone; to shoot someone. (Underworld.) Rocko tried time and time again to smoke Marlowe, always without success.

6. tv. to beat someone in a contest; to outrun, outdistance, or outplay someone. Jill smoked Dave in the bicycle race.

See:

• blow smoke
• chain-smoke
• go up in flames
• go up in smoke
• holy cow
• holy smoke
• no smoke without fire
• no smoke without fire, there's
• put that in your pipe and smoke it
• Put that in your pipe and smoke it!
• put up a smoke screen
• smoke
• smoke and mirrors
• smoke both ends of the cigar
• smoke eater
• smoke like a chimney
• smoke out
• smoke out of
• smoke pole
• smoke signals
• smoke the peace pipe (with someone)
• smoke up
• smoke-filled room
• smoke-in
• the smoke
• There's no smoke without fire
• throw smoke
• watch my dust
• where there's smoke, there's fire