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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (3 children)

I'm a Brit and I can't figure out what word is a synonym for both stick AND smoke. Am I regarded?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I'm being willfully obtuse.

Don't think: Where there's smoke, there's fire

Instead think: Found my way upstairs and had a smoke
And somebody spoke and I went into a dream

According to Wikipedia its also a meatball.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Ohhhhh I gotcha. Thanks for linking it to Wikipedia! I think I got confused because I didn't see the relation with stick, and I feel like the abbreviated form of the word used to describe a cigarette is quite an outdated term now.

Honestly when you mentioned smoke, I was thinking of it as a noun with the second context you mentioned. But not being a tobacco smoker myself, the devil's lettuce popped into my mind instead.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

you might be retired

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

i think the problem is that "smoke" here is also slang

think like smoke, the verb

or even better, the gerund