smokeless
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English
Etymology
Adjective
smokeless (not comparable)
- Without smoke.
- smokeless fuel
- smokeless gunpowder
- (firearms) (Of a gun) that does not produce smoke when fired.
- 1971, Thomas G. Burton, Ambrose N. Manning, editors, Folksongs II, Research Advisory Council of East Tennessee State University, page 19:
- I run home, jumped in the bed,
Laid a forty-four smokeless under my head.
- (Of tobacco) to be consumed through methods other than smoking.