smoke

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noun

ADJECTIVE

▪ dense, heavy, thick

▪ black, blue, grey/gray, white, etc.

▪ billowing

▪ acrid, choking

▪ stale

▪

the smell of stale cigarette smoke on your clothes

▪ wood

▪ cigar, cigarette, pipe, tobacco

▪ second-hand

▪

Hundreds of people die each year as a result of exposure to second-hand smoke (= smoke from other people's cigarettes, cigars, etc.).

… OF SMOKE

▪ cloud, column, haze, pall, plume, puff, spiral, wisp

▪

We sat drinking in a haze of cigarette smoke.

▪

The witch disappeared in a puff of smoke.

VERB + SMOKE

▪ belch, belch out, blow, emit

▪

The car ahead was belching out black smoke.

▪

Don't blow smoke in my face!

▪ exhale, inhale

▪ be wreathed in

▪

She sat there wreathed in cigarette smoke.

SMOKE + VERB

▪ belch, billow, come, curl, drift, pour, rise

▪

Blue smoke curled up from her cigarette.

▪

Smoke rose into the sky.

▪ fill sth

▪ hang

▪

A pall of yellow smoke hung over the quarry.

▪ clear

▪

When the smoke cleared we saw the extent of the damage.

SMOKE + NOUN

▪ plume, ring

▪

I taught myself to blow smoke rings.

▪ signal

▪ bomb, grenade

▪ alarm, detector

▪ inhalation

▪ machine

▪

The club had a smoke machine and laser show.

▪ break (informal, esp. AmE)

▪

I was taking a smoke break outside.

PHRASES

▪ go up in smoke

▪

The barn went up in smoke.

▪ full of smoke

▪ thick with smoke

▪

The bar was thick with stale tobacco smoke.

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verb

1 cigarette, pipe, etc.

ADVERB

▪ heavily

▪

He has always smoked heavily.

▪ openly

▪

You see kids openly smoking in the streets.

PHRASES

▪ smoke like a chimney (= smoke a lot)

▪

He smokes like a chimney.

2 meat/fish/cheese

ADVERB

▪ heavily

▪ lightly

▪

The ham is cured, then lightly smoked.

Smoke is used with these nouns as the subject: ↑fire

Smoke is used with these nouns as the object: ↑cannabis, ↑cigar, ↑cigarette, ↑cocaine, ↑dope, ↑heroin, ↑marijuana, ↑opium, ↑pipe, ↑tobacco