gunsmoke

English

Etymology

gun +‎ smoke

Noun

gunsmoke (uncountable)

1. Smoke produced by the firing of a gun.
   • 1990 April 14, Elizabeth Pincus, “Hot Blue Steel”, in Gay Community News, page 16:

     You can almost smell the horses, the high chapparal ^[sic], the gunsmoke.

   • 2001, Eric Flint, David Drake, Destiny's Shield:

     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.

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