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Big Smoke en · PROPN
Meanings
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(UK, informal) London.
The first man I spoke to was Whitechapel to the backbone, plainly to be spotted as such as if it had been tattooed on his forehead. Making myself at home with him, I desired to know what brought him so far from the "big smoke," and on board a whaler of all places in the world.
1898, Frank Thomas Bullen, The Cruise of the Cachalot:
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(Ireland, informal) Dublin.
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(Canada, informal) Toronto.
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(broadly) Any large city.
Forms
Synonyms
the Big Shmoke · the Smoke