Definition of "smokes" [smokes]

• Plural form of smoke. (noun)
• Third-person singular simple present indicative form of smoke. (verb)

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• "As he chain smokes his way through an interview in his apartment he offers profound insights into the American literary scene in the mid-20th century, but he also spends significant screen time doing little more than contemplating his navel."
• "A woman who smokes is put into a specially-constructed machine that burns her entire body with over 3,000 simultaneously lit cigarettes, then suffocates on all the smoke, at which point her corpse is raped."
• "He was, too, essentially and curiously the son of his father -- even to his minor tastes, such as his connoisseur's palate for a good wine and his judgment in "smokes" -- and this feeling of a certain detachment from the larger emotions of life was always his father's pose -- the philosopher's."