phrase Street Slang

on smoke

· phrase · uk-drill

Actively looking for violence with rivals.

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Out on the road specifically to start something with opps — not chilling, not working, hunting. If a man's 'on smoke' he's driving through enemy postcodes with the intent to score. Borrowed from US street slang where 'smoke' means trouble or confrontation.

“Don't come round here tonight, the gang's on smoke.”
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on smoke In A Sentence

Don't come round here tonight, the gang's on smoke.

Origin & Usage

African-American Vernacular English; 'smoke' as conflict/beef goes back decades in US hip-hop ('I got that smoke for you'). Imported into UK drill vocab in the late 2010s.

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