To emit smoke; throw off volatile matter in the form of vapor or exhalation; reek; fume; especially, to send off visible vapor as the product of combustion.To burn; be kindled; rage; fume.To raise a dust or smoke by rapid motion.To smell or hunt something out; suspect something; perceive a hidden fact or meaning.To permit the passage of smoke outward instead of drawing it upward; send out smoke for want of sufficient draft: said of chimneys, stoves, etc.To draw fumes of burning tobacco, opium, or the like, into, and emit them from, the mouth; use tobacco or opium in this manner.To suffer as from overwork or hard treatment; be punished.To emit dust, as when beaten.To apply smoke to; blacken with smoke; hang in smoke; medicate or dry by smoke; fumigate: as, to smoke infected clothing; to subject to the action of smoke, as meat; cure by means of smoke; smoke-dry; also, to incense.To affect in some way with smoke; especially, to drive or expel by smoke: generally with out; also, to destroy or kill, as bees, by smoke.To draw smoke from into the mouth and puff it out; also, to burn or use in smoking; inhale the smoke of: as, to smoke tobacco or opium; to smoke a pipe or a cigar.To smell out; find out; scent; perceive; perceive the meaning of; suspect.To sneer at; quiz; ridicule to one's face.To raise dust from by beating; “dust”: as, I'll smoke his jacket for him.n. The exhalation, visible vapor, or material that escapes or is expelled from a burning substance during combustion: applied especially to the volatile matter expelled from wood, coal, peat, etc., together with the solid matter which is carried off in suspension with it, that expelled from metallic substances being more generally called fume or fumes.n. Anything that resembles smoke; steam; vapor; watery exhalations; dust.n. Hence Something unsubstantial; something ephemeral or transient: as, the affair ended in smoke.n. The act or process of drawing in and puffing out the fumes of burning tobacco, opium, or the like.n. A chimney.To get away; skip; skedaddle.