Big Smoke

English Proper noun Big Smoke 1 en UK informal London. en the Smoke en 1898 w:The Cruise of the Cachalot w:Frank Thomas Bullen https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/1356/pg1356-images.html 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. en Ireland informal Dublin. en the Big Shmoke en Canada informal Toronto. en by extension Any large city. en Nicknames for cities