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gunsmoke en · NOUN

Etymology

From gun + smoke.

Meanings

1. (uncountable) Smoke produced by the firing of a gun.
   • You can almost smell the horses, the high chapparal ^([sic]), the gunsmoke. 1990 April 14, Elizabeth Pincus, “Hot Blue Steel”, in Gay Community News, page 16:
   • A cloud of gunsmoke, well over a mile distant, indicated the presence of a battery of the huge cannons. After the wind blew the cloud away, he could spot the actual guns themselves. 2001, Eric Flint, David Drake, Destiny's Shield:

Translations (3)

pl dym od pistoletu (Smoke from firing a gun) · fi aseen savu (Smoke from firing a gun) · lo ຄວັນປືນ (Smoke from firing a gun)