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How to pronounce “smoke”
Hear “smoke” in real YouTube speech, then study definitions and example sentence snippets.
Pronunciation guide for smoke
- Learning goal
- Practice the English pronunciation of smoke with real speech in context.
- Available examples
- 8 YouTube examples
- Real speech example
- The Science of Great Barbecue and Grilling
Honestly, I bought my first smoker this summer.
- Definition summary
- (uncountable) The visible vapor/vapour, gases, and fine particles given off by burning or smoldering material.
Example 1 of 8
How to pronounce smoke
The Science of Great Barbecue and Grilling

Honestly, I bought my first smoker this summer.
Example Sentences
A Deep Dive Into “smoke”
Meaning
- [Noun]
- (uncountable) The visible vapor/vapour, gases, and fine particles given off by burning or smoldering material.
- (colloquial, countable) A cigarette.
- (colloquial, uncountable) Anything to smoke (e.g. cigarettes, marijuana, etc.)
- (colloquial, countable, never plural) An instance of smoking a cigarette, cigar, etc.; the duration of this act.
- (uncountable, figuratively) A fleeting illusion; something insubstantial, evanescent, unreal, transitory, or without result.
- (uncountable, figuratively) Something used to obscure or conceal; an obscuring condition; see also smoke and mirrors.
- (uncountable) A light grey color tinted with blue.
- (uncountable, slang) Bother, trouble; problems; hassle.
- (uncountable) Any cloud of solid particles or liquid vapor dispersed into the air; particularly one of:
- (baseball, slang) A fastball.
- (countable) A distinct column of smoke, such as indicating a burning area or fire.
- [Verb]
- (transitive) To inhale and exhale the smoke from a burning cigarette, cigar, pipe, etc.
- (intransitive) To inhale and exhale tobacco smoke.
- (intransitive) To give off smoke.
- (transitive) To preserve or prepare (food) for consumption by treating with smoke.
- (transitive) To dry or medicate by smoke.
- (transitive, obsolete) To fill or scent with smoke; hence, to fill with incense; to perfume.
- (transitive, obsolete) To make unclear or blurry.
- (intransitive, slang, chiefly as present participle) To perform (e.g. music) energetically or skillfully.
- (slang) To beat someone at something.
- (transitive, slang) To snuff out; to kill, especially with a gun.
- (transitive, slang, obsolete) To thrash; to beat.
- (obsolete, transitive) To smell out; to hunt out; to find out; to detect.
- (slang, obsolete, transitive) To ridicule to the face; to mock.
- To burn; to be kindled; to rage.
- To raise a dust or smoke by rapid motion.
- To suffer severely; to be punished.
- (transitive, US military slang) To punish (a person) for a minor offense by excessive physical exercise.
- (transitive) To cover (a key blank) with soot or carbon to aid in seeing the marks made by impressioning.
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