smoke

smoke

1. noun, slang Tobacco that has been prepared for smoking, especially a cigarette. Mind if I bum a smoke off you? I just ran out. I need to stop at the gas station and pick up a pack of smokes.
2. noun, slang An act or instance of smoking tobacco. I'm going outside for a smoke. You want to come?
3. verb, slang To smoke tobacco. Please don't smoke in your bedroom. It stinks up the whole house!
4. verb, slang To be a habitual user of smoking products, such as tobacco or marijuana. I smoked for five years, but I finally managed to quit. A: "Want a cigarette?" B: "No thanks, I don't smoke." I smoked a lot during college, but weed just makes me feel lethargic and stupid these days.
5. verb, slang To move or proceed extremely fast. The car went smoking by, with the sound of police sirens not far behind it.
6. verb, slang To perform extremely well, especially with a lot of energy or enthusiasm. The band has been absolutely smoking for the last two hours. People in the club are going crazy for them! They looked a little sluggish in the first half of the game, but the team is positively smoking now.
7. verb, slang To kill someone, especially with a gun. Go smoke that fool before he talks to the police.
8. verb, slang To defeat someone thoroughly and decisively. We all thought it would be a close game, but the home team totally smoked their cross-town rivals.
9. verb, vulgar slang To perform oral sex on (a male).
Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.

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.
McGraw-Hill's Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions
See:
  • a smoke-filled room
  • blow smoke
  • chain smoke
  • chain-smoke
  • go up in flames
  • go up in smoke
  • holy cow
  • holy smoke(s)
  • in a smoke-filled room
  • jet from (something)
  • no smoke without fire
  • no smoke without fire, there's
  • no smoke, no fire
  • put that in your pipe and smoke it
  • Put that in your pipe and smoke it!
  • put up a smoke screen
  • smoke
  • smoke (someone or something) out of (some place)
  • smoke and mirrors
  • smoke both ends of the cigar
  • smoke eater
  • smoke like a chimney
  • smoke like a chimney, to
  • smoke out
  • smoke out of
  • smoke pole
  • smoke show
  • smoke signals
  • smoke someone/something out, to
  • smoke the peace pipe (with someone)
  • smoke up
  • smoke-filled room
  • smoke-in
  • smokescreen
  • stick that in your pipe and smoke it
  • the big smoke
  • there's no smoke without fire
  • throw smoke
  • watch (one's) smoke
  • watch my dust
  • watch someone's smoke
  • where there's smoke there's fire
  • where there's smoke, there's fire
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Say no to cigarette
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However, at the same time smokers take shelter behind some researches according to which the immune system of a person who smokes work much better as compare to non-smokers and act fast to any bacterial attack.
Strict check on smoking habits of youngsters
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Passive smoking means breathing in other people's tobacco smoke. Exhaled smoke is called exhaled mainstream smoke.
Passive smoking
In other words, does parents' smoking affect whether their children smoke? There is past evidence to suggest that this is the case.
The Relationship between Parent and Child Cigarette Smoking
Personally, I don't smoke and would be in favor of such a law.
One question, two IREM Members: "some apartment communities are adopting smoke-free policies to reduce maintenance and turnover costs. Do you think there should be city or state laws to prohibit smoking in apartment communities?"
FACT: If you smoke when you're pregnant, it slows the flow of blood in the placenta, which means that fewer nutrients reach the foetus and affect its growth and development.
Forget the fiction, look at facts; Smokers often ignore claims about how much their habit affects their own lives and the devastating impact it has on health and lifestyle