Big Smoke

English

Proper noun

the Big Smoke

  1. (UK, informal) London.
    Synonym: the Smoke
    • 1898, Frank Thomas Bullen, The Cruise of the Cachalot‎:
      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.
  2. (Ireland, informal) Dublin.
    Synonym: the Big Shmoke
  3. (Canada, informal) Toronto.
  4. (by extension) Any large city.
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