Collocations for "smoke"
Common phrases and expressions where native English speakers use the word "smoke" in context.
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smoke
ⓘMost examples are given in US English. We have labeled exceptions as UK.n
- [yellow, heavy, thick, industrial] smoke
- [chimney, bonfire, fire] smoke
- [cigar, cigarette, tobacco] smoke
- [have, go for, need] a (quick) smoke
- have you got a smoke?
- am [dying, gagging, busting] for a smoke
- buy your own smokes!
- slang: can I bum a smoke (off you)?
- the [business, plan, company, economy] went up in smoke
- (can) smell smoke (coming from)
- his [car, shirt] smells like smoke
- smoke from the [flames, grill, oven, barbecue]
- there's no smoke without fire
- their [words, promises, plans] were just smoke
- he's just blowing smoke
- vulgar: are you (just) blowing smoke up my ass?
- UK: the [family, graduate] moved to the Big Smoke
- blow smoke rings
- [use, send] smoke signals
- a smoke [alarm, detector, allergy, machine]
- smoke a [cigarette, cigar, joint]
- was smoking a [cigarette]
- smokes [twenty, two packs] a day
- smokes [weed, tobacco]
- smoke too much
- do you mind if I smoke?
- I don't smoke
- too [young, ill, thirsty] to smoke
- the [house, building] is smoking
- smoked in [silence, contemplation]
- smoke a [ham, roast]
- smoke with [applewood, cedar, hickory]
- smoke and [cure, salt]
- smoke a [room, house, building] for [insects, roaches]
- smoke out a [criminal, gang]
- (try to) smoke them out
- smoked him in the [game, match, competition]
'smoke' also found in these entries (note: many are not synonyms or translations):
alarm
- blow
- bomb
- bonfire
- bowl
- break
- breathe
- cease
- chimney
- cigarette
- cloud
- coil
- column
- crack
- curl
- damage
- detection
- disappear
- drift
- enough
- expel
- filter
- flare
- float
- foul
- free
- gauze
- gray
- ham
- haze
- hemp
- install
- joint
- kindly
- law
- like
- main
- mind
- occasionally
- often
- peace
- pillar
- pipe
- plain
- pot
- puff
- rare
- ring
- rise
- rising