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Definition of gone up in smoke
go up in smoke
verb
- to fail.
His career went up in smoke after a steroids scandal.
- See more words with the same meaning: to lose, be defeated, fail.
Last edited on Sep 01 2011. Submitted by Walter Rader (Editor) from Sacramento, CA, USA on Sep 01 2011.
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Other terms relating to 'to lose, be defeated, fail': | |
| Definitions include: to fall and hit the ground. | |
| Definitions include: to fail in one's responsibilities. | |
| Definitions include: to experience traumatic physical contact with a stationary object. | |
| Definitions include: a loser. | |
| Definitions include: acronym of "Biggest Beating Ever," which can refer to "beating" as in a severe physical attack, or a severe defeat e.g. in a competitive sport. | |
| Definitions include: to be severely defeated. | |
| Definitions include: in "professional wrestling," a wrestler who intentionally loses to improve the image of the winner. | |
| Definitions include: strange, stupid; "weird". | |
| Definitions include: to stop working. | |
| Definitions include: "take a loss", i.e. to suffer a loss in a competition. | |
| Definitions include: to perform terribly. | |
| Definitions include: a "professional wrestler" who loses matches so as to build up a featured wrestler's win/loss record and crowd appeal. | |
| Definitions include: to defeat soundly. | |
| Definitions include: good; excellent; "cool". | |
| Definitions include: to fail. | |
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Other terms relating to 'go': | |
| Definitions include: completely ready. | |
| Definitions include: acronym for "best friends forever who eat out and go shopping a lot". | |
| Definitions include: used to tell someone to stop messing with people. | |
| Definitions include: excited and ready to start. | |
| Definitions include: from the beginning. | |
| Definitions include: acronym for "got to go". | |
| Definitions include: acronym of "goes away from keyboard". | |
| Definitions include: "goes in to". | |
| Definitions include: the beginning. | |
| Definitions include: to get a person excited. | |
| Definitions include: to move one's legs. | |
| Definitions include: acronym for "go fuck yourself". | |
| Definitions include: acronym for "go fuck yourself". | |
| Definitions include: acronym of "go fuck yourself." | |
| Definitions include: acronym for "good game." | |
Other terms relating to 'in': | |
| Definitions include: something you have now is worth more than two things you have just a chance of getting. | |
| Definitions include: a secret advantage. | |
| Definitions include: involving everyone or everything. | |
| Definitions include: doing something emphatically. | |
| Definitions include: no chance. | |
| Definitions include: something easy. | |
| Definitions include: at some time before the present. | |
| Definitions include: having resumed an activity that one had previously stopped performing. | |
| Definitions include: included. | |
| Definitions include: clitoris. | |
| Definitions include: to intrude. | |
| Definitions include: See barge in. | |
| Definitions include: To beat someone up, inflict head injury | |
| Definitions include: visible mucus in one's nostrils. | |
| Definitions include: acronym for "be back in a bit", i.e. "I will return in a short amount of time." | |
Other terms relating to 'smoke': | |
| Definitions include: Nearest big city. | |
| Definitions include: to make unfounded or exaggerated remarks or claims. | |
| Definitions include: a person who performs fellatio. | |
| Definitions include: interjection of surprise or alarm. | |
| Definitions include: an exclamation of surprise. | |
| Definitions include: a person who can make a marijuana smoking device out of whatever objects happen to be nearby. | |
| Definitions include: a homosexual male. | |
| Definitions include: general retort; "How do you like that?" | |
| Definitions include: to kill, usually with a firearm. | |
| Definitions include: to smoke the contents of a bowl containing marijuana. | |
| Definitions include: something deceptive. | |
| Definitions include: to perform oral sex on a male. | |
| Definitions include: Someone who doesn't know what they're talking about. | |
| Definitions include: to smoke dope, i.e. to smoke marijuana. | |
| Definitions include: an insulting retort; "suck (one's) dick". | |
Other terms relating to 'up': | |
| Definitions include: a warning that one or more law enforcement officers are near. | |
| Definitions include: a secret advantage. | |
| Definitions include: to misbehave. | |
| Definitions include: acronym of "all fucked up." | |
| Definitions include: well dressed, wearing makeup, etc. | |
| Definitions include: doing something emphatically. | |
| Definitions include: energetic due to consumption of a stimulant. | |
| Definitions include: to increase. | |
| Definitions include: to contribute one's share. | |
| Definitions include: to mess up. | |
| Definitions include: 1. To be highly intoxicated on drugs and/or alcohol | |
| Definitions include: to make something like ass. | |
| Definitions include: strange, stupid; "weird". | |
| Definitions include: stupid. | |
| Definitions include: strange / stupid. | |
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