Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

big smoke

Word Rarity Uncommon

Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.63 in modern English

Syllables: big smoke
IPA

17

Scrabble Score

8

Letters

1

Syllables

8

Unique Chars

Meaning

name

British usage; Informal

name

Informal

name

Canadian usage; Informal

name

Any large city.

noun

Any large city.

Australian usage; Uncountable

Example Sentences

"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."
"I got a transfer in my bank job and on the first day on the job in the big smoke I had to share a teller's box with a young lady called Kim, a real spunk and my future wife."

Usage

Inflected Forms

the Big Smoke (canonical)

Synonyms

the Smoke the Big Shmoke

Questions

What does big smoke mean?: London.

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