"Big Smoke" meaning in English

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          "ref": "1898, Frank Thomas Bullen, The Cruise of the Cachalot",
          "text": "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.",
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        "(UK, informal) London."
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          "word": "the Smoke"
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        "Dublin."
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        "(Ireland, informal) Dublin."
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        "(Canada, informal) Toronto."
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