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smoke ◆◆◇ /smoʊ k/ (smokes , smoking , smoked )

1 N‑UNCOUNT Smoke consists of gas and small bits of solid material that are sent into the air when something burns. □  A cloud of black smoke blew over the city. □  The air was thick with smoke.

2 VERB If something is smoking , smoke is coming from it. □ [V ] The chimney was smoking fiercely. □ [V -ing] …a pile of smoking rubble.

3 VERB When someone smokes a cigarette, cigar, or pipe, they suck the smoke from it into their mouth and blow it out again. If you smoke , you regularly smoke cigarettes, cigars, or a pipe. □ [V n] He was sitting alone, smoking a big cigar. □ [V ] Do you smoke? ● N‑SING Smoke is also a noun. □  Someone came out for a smoke. ●  smok|er (smokers ) N‑COUNT □  He was not a heavy smoker.

4 VERB [usu passive] If fish or meat is smoked , it is hung over burning wood so that the smoke preserves it and gives it a special flavour. □ [be V -ed] …the grid where the fish were being smoked. □ [V -ed] …smoked bacon.

5 → see also smoked , smoking

6 PHRASE If someone says there's no smoke without fire or where there's smoke there's fire , they mean that there are rumours or signs that something is true so it must be at least partly true.

7 PHRASE If something goes up in smoke , it is destroyed by fire. □  More than 900 years of British history went up in smoke in the Great Fire of Windsor.

8 PHRASE If something that is very important to you goes up in smoke , it fails or ends without anything being achieved. □  Their dreams went up in smoke after the collapse of their travel agency.

▸  smoke out PHRASAL VERB If you smoke out someone who is hiding, you discover them and make them publicly known. □ [V n P ] The committee have tried dozens of different ways to smoke him out. □ [V P n] …technology to smoke out tax evaders.

smo ke alarm (smoke alarms ) also smoke detector N‑COUNT A smoke alarm or a smoke detector is a device fixed to the ceiling of a room which makes a loud noise if there is smoke in the air, to warn people.

smo ke bomb (smoke bombs ) N‑COUNT A smoke bomb is a bomb that produces clouds of smoke when it explodes.

smoked /smoʊ kt/

1 ADJ Smoked glass has been made darker by being treated with smoke. □  …a white van with smoked-glass windows.

2 → see also smoke

smo ked sa lm|on N‑UNCOUNT Smoked salmon is the flesh of a salmon which is smoked and eaten raw.

smo ke-filled roo m (smoke-filled rooms ) N‑COUNT If you talk about a decision being made in a smoke-filled room , you mean that it is made by a small group of people in a private meeting, rather than in a more democratic or open way. [DISAPPROVAL ] □  …long discussions in smoke-filled rooms.

smoke|less /smoʊ kləs/ ADJ Smokeless fuel burns without producing smoke.

smoke|screen /smoʊ kskriːn/ (smokescreens ) also smoke screen N‑COUNT If something that you do or say is a smokescreen , it is intended to hide the truth about your activities or intentions. □  He was accused of putting up a smokescreen to hide poor standards in schools.

smo ke sig|nal (smoke signals ) N‑COUNT [usu pl] If someone such as a politician or businessman sends out smoke signals , they give an indication of their views and intentions. This indication is often not clear and needs to be worked out. □ [+ from ] The smoke signals from the central bank suggest further cuts are coming.

smoke|stack /smoʊ kstæk/ (smokestacks ) N‑COUNT A smokestack is a very tall chimney that carries smoke away from a factory.