"smoke ring" meaning in All languages combined

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Noun [English]

Forms: smoke rings [plural]
Head templates: {{en-noun}} smoke ring (plural smoke rings)
  1. A ring of smoke exhaled by a smoker. Wikipedia link: smoke ring Categories (topical): Smoking Translations (smoking trick): 烟圈 (yānquān) (Chinese Mandarin), savurengas (Finnish), rengas (Finnish), rond de fumée [masculine] (French), ronds de fumée [masculine, plural] (French)

Inflected forms

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