Definitions for smokes

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smokes smoke

Spelling: [smohk]

IPA: /smoʊk/

Smokes is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 14 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 17 points.

You can make 65 anagrams from letters in smokes (ekmoss).

Definitions for smokes

noun

1. the visible vapor and gases given off by a burning or smoldering substance, especially the gray, brown, or blackish mixture of gases and suspended carbon particles resulting from the combustion of wood, peat, coal, or other organic matter.
2. something resembling this, as vapor or mist, flying particles, etc.
3. something unsubstantial, evanescent, or without result:
4. an obscuring condition:
5. an act or spell of smoking something, especially tobacco:
6. something for smoking, as a cigar or cigarette:
7. Slang. marijuana.
8. Slang. a homemade drink consisting of denatured alcohol and water.
9. Physics, Chemistry. a system of solid particles suspended in a gaseous medium.
10. a bluish or brownish gray color.

Idioms

1. go up / end in smoke, to terminate without producing a result; be unsuccessful:

Verb phrases

1. smoke out, to drive from a refuge by means of smoke. to force into public view or knowledge; reveal:

verb (used with object)

1. to draw into the mouth and puff out the smoke of:
2. to use (a pipe, cigarette, etc.) in this process.
3. to expose to smoke.
4. to fumigate (rooms, furniture, etc.).
5. to cure (meat, fish, etc.) by exposure to smoke.
6. to color or darken by smoke.

verb (used without object)

1. to give off or emit smoke, as in burning.
2. to give out smoke offensively or improperly, as a stove.
3. to send forth steam or vapor, dust, or the like.
4. to draw into the mouth and puff out the smoke of tobacco or the like, as from a pipe or cigarette.
5. Slang. to ride or travel with great speed.
6. Australian. to flee. to abscond.

Origin of smokes

before 1000; (noun) Middle English; Old English smoca; (v.) Middle English smoken, Old English smocian

Examples for smokes

He removed from his lips the short corn-cob pipe he was smoking.

He was smoking his big briar and drinking a huge glass of brown beer.

Now in his early thirties, his cheeks are sunken from smoking too much hash.

The night before he bought a lot of crack-cocaine on credit with no way to pay, intending to kill himself after smoking.

Half of a Keppler published on January 9, 1884, shows virgin forest, the other half a smoking industrial slagscape.

The gentlemen were smoking, and some of the ladies were trying to look at ease with cigarettes.

The estimated ship date of the gadget is December 2014—perfect timing to say sayonara to smoking forever.

How long has it been since the Republican Party had a smoking hot presidential ticket?

Then he turned to the sergeant, who was smoking philosophically.

Kua-ko was lying in his hammock, smoking, I think—certainly not reading.