smokehouse

American  

[smohk-hous] / ˈsmoʊkˌhaʊs /

noun

smokehouses plural

1. a building or place in which meat, fish, etc., are cured with smoke.

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smokehouse British  

/ ˈsməʊkˌhaʊs /

noun

1. a building or special construction for curing meat, fish, etc, by smoking

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Other Word Forms

Inflected Forms

noun

• smokehouses
  plural

Etymology

Origin of smokehouse

First recorded in 1665–75; smoke + house

Example Sentences

The 60-year-old, who recently premiered a television cooking show, also put in an appearance alongside Billy Bob Thornton, Wynonna Judd and Gavin Adcock at the fever dream that is Guy Fieri’s Smokehouse.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 26, 2026

Oscar’s Smokehouse continues to evolve, as it always has.

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 4, 2025

Already this year, the Smokehouse Creek Fire, which broke out in the Texas Panhandle in February, has become the second-largest wildfire in U.S. history, burning nearly 1.1 million acres.

From Salon • Apr. 22, 2024

Xcel Energy, a utility company based in Minneapolis, recently acknowledged that its equipment most likely started the Smokehouse Creek Fire last month in the Texas Panhandle.

From New York Times • Mar. 22, 2024

Fruit resembles Smokehouse, medium, roundish-oblate, regular; Surface smooth, bright red, mixed, striped, and splashed, on greenish yellow; Dots numerous, brown and yellow.

From American Pomology Apples by Warder, J. A.