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smokes

The correct spelling is smokes.

How to pronounce smokes

noun

IPA: /sməʊks/

Say it like: Smo-kes

The correct spelling is smokes. The visible vapor/vapour, gases, and fine particles given off by burning or smoldering material. For example: "Can I bum a smoke off you?;  I need to go buy some smokes."

Usage Examples

Can I bum a smoke off you?;  I need to go buy some smokes.

Hey, you got some smoke?

I'm going out for a smoke.

Meanings

noun

  1. 1.The visible vapor/vapour, gases, and fine particles given off by burning or smoldering material.
  2. 2.A cigarette.
  3. 3.Anything to smoke (e.g. cigarettes, marijuana, etc.)
  4. 4.(never plural) An instance of smoking a cigarette, cigar, etc.; the duration of this act.
  5. 5.A fleeting illusion; something insubstantial, evanescent, unreal, transitory, or without result.

verb

  1. 1.To inhale and exhale the smoke from a burning cigarette, cigar, pipe, etc.
  2. 2.To inhale and exhale tobacco smoke.
  3. 3.To give off smoke.
  4. 4.To preserve or prepare (food) for consumption by treating with smoke.
  5. 5.To dry or medicate by smoke.

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