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smoke
noun- a cigarette; a cigar UK, 1882
- The white folks sure think they’re beautiful, walked up to the drugstore at the corner for a pack of smokes. — Chester Himes, If He Hollers Let Him Go, p. 78, 1945
- “I sure need a smoke, boss,” he muttered. — Chester Gould, Dick Tracy Meets the Night Crawler, p. 57, 1945
- Pat was on the last of his smokes. The dead butts littered the table and his coat was covered with ashes. — Mickey Spillane, One Lonely Night, p. 121, 1951
- Getting smokes was the toughest part. — Willard Motley, Let No Man Write My Epitaph, p. 20, 1958
- [H]e said in his slowest, deepest drawl how he figured he could use one of the smokes he bought this morning, then ran his hand through the glass. — Ken Kesey, One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest, p. 190, 1962
- “You got smokes?” he asked impulsively. — Nathan Heard, Howard Street, p. 206, 1968
- He pulls a wrinkled pack of smokes from his flannel shirt and lights one. — Larry Heinemann, Paco’s Story, p. 101, 1986
- MIA: What are you doing? VINCENT: Rollin’ a smoke. MIA: Here? VINCENT: It’s just tobacco. — Pulp Fiction, 1994
- What you have here is pure Havana, a forty-dollar smoke, man. How is it? — Elmore Leonard, Be Cool, p. 204, 1999
- marijuana; heroin; opium; any drug that may be smoked US, 1946
- Then you know what smoke is, huh, West? You did a high on smoke, boy? — Evan Hunter, The Blackboard Jungle, p. 159, 1954
- They passed it back and forth, getting high. “That’s pretty mellow smoke,” she announced after a few more hits. — Odie Hawkins, Chicago Hustle, p. 161, 1977
- [T]here’s definitely a line in the music where they [the Beatles] changed from smoke to acid. — Paul E Willis, Profane Culture, p. 146, 1978
- Our smoke was gone and the next day we made plans for replenishing the supply. — Herbert Huncke, The Evening Sun Turned Crimson, p. 205, 1980
- G.B. ran back up to his neighborhood (Bed-Sty New Yawk) for a bag of bad smoke over the course of a weekend[.] — Odie Hawkins, Men Friends, p. 51, 1989
- Every week they’d be asking me for money to buy coke and smoke. — Terry Williams, The Cocaine Kids, p. 79, 1989
- He’s really funny, and straight off, he offers me some smoke. — Clueless, 1995
- Man, this Likeness Rights shit is more profitable than selling smoke. — Chasing Amy, 1997
- [A] narcotic selection box: top quality Peruvian flake [cocaine], California Ecstasy and Caribbean smoke. — Wayne Anthony, Spanish Highs, p. 67, 1999
- We fancied some smoke to take the edge of the drink[.] — Jimmy Stockin, On The Cobbles, p. 124, 2000
- a marijuana cigarette US
- Our “Sundays” we had off and if we were out of “Smokes” we’d go down to Montreal to “cop”[.] — Babs Gonzales, I Paid My Dues, p. 63, 1967
- Buy you a pound of grass and just put it there on the table, roll a smoke any time you want one. — Bruce Jackson, Outside the Law, p. 190, 1972
- We got pretty stoned too–it’s an excuse to get some in and have a few smokes. — Ben Malbon, Cool Places, p. 268, 1998
- To provide the guys in the band with a smoke whenever they needed it, I kept in my pocket a chunk of hash[.] — Simon Napier-Bell, Black Vinyl White Powder, p. 3, 2001
- crack cocaine when smoked; heroin mixed with crack cocaine when smoked US
- — William T. Vollman, Whores for Gloria, p. 139, 1991
- — Mike Haskins, Drugs, p. 293, 2003
- She let us push crack out of the spot and do what we had to do as long as we gave her smoke. — 50 Cent, From Pieces to Weight, p. 112, 2005
- denatured alcohol (ethyl alcohol to which a poisonous substance has been added to make it unfit for consumption) mixed with water for drinking US
- — Hyman E. Goldin et al., Dictionary of American Underworld Lingo, p. 199, 1950
- toxic, potentially fatal solvents used as substitutes for alcohol for the truly desperate US
- If we wanted to make a more legitimate type buck, we could always sell smoke to the bums down on the Bowery. We picked up the pints of smoke–which was alcohol cut with water and some “spirit” pills added–from the neighborhood guy who mixed it in his bathtub. — Rocky Garciano (with Rowland Barber), Somebody Up There Likes Me, p. 69, 1955
- The junkman fished a bottle of smoke from his ragged garments. — Chester Himes, A Rage in Harlem, p. 123, 1957
- — Ralph de Sola, Crime Dictionary, p. 140, 1982
- a black person US, 1913
Offensive. - And I want the five in my hand, Smoke, before I move. — Elmore Leonard, Be Cool, p. 127, 1999
- a non-commissioned officer commanding an artillery battery US
- — Hans Halberstadt, Airborne, p. 130, 1988: “Abridged dictionary of airborne terms”
- a forest fire US, 1991
- — American Speech, p. 205–209, Summer 199: “The language of smokejumping–again”
- one dollar US
- — American Speech, p. 66, Spring-Summer 1975: “Razorback slang”
▶ bring smoke
to fire a gun US- If we take them out first, it eliminates any possibility they’ll bring smoke during the action. — Stephen J. Cannell, Big Con, p. 383, 1997
▶ in smoke
in hiding AUSTRALIA, 1908- So there will be big celebrations even though I’m in smoke, even though they are searching for me. — Kevin Mackey, The Cure, p. 30, 1970
- King and Matt would go out the back way and go into smoke over at the “Argent” bar until closing time. — Sam Weller, Old Bastards I Have Met, p. 80, 1979
▶ put smoke
to fire a single round of artillery to help others mark a target US- — Gregory Clark, Words of the Vietnam War, p. 316, 1990
▶ the Smoke; Big Smoke; Great Smoke; the Smokes
London; any large city UK, 1848
All variations are used with “the”.- I’ve got my sources of information in every manor in the smoke [London]. — Charles Raven, Underworld Nights, p. 91, 1956
- [T]hey had to get back to the Smoke Sat. p.m. poor dears. — Henry Sloane, Sloane’s Inside Guide to Sex & Drugs & Rock ’n’ Roll, p. 55, 1985
- So lock, stock and barrel they moved down to the Smoke. — John Robb, The Nineties, p. 144, 1999
▶ up the Smoke
to London; to central London (from the suburbs) UK
Originally tramps’ usage; you go “up THE SMOKEdown from the north. |