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Big Smoke

British  

noun

  1. informal a large city, esp London

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

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Big Smoke Festival is part of South Facing's summer of open-air concerts in London.

From BBC ● Jun. 13, 2025

It may sound like they have disappeared from the Big Smoke - but have they?

From BBC ● Dec. 30, 2021

Although unbeaten in their last five league matches, Aston Villa's record in the Big Smoke is not good this year.

From The Guardian ● Dec. 21, 2012

For both Big Oil and Big Smoke, that playbook is lethally simple: Don't straight up refute the science, just raise skepticism, and insist that the findings are "unsettled" and that "more research" is necessary.

From Time ● Oct. 4, 2011

The two were flying high above the romantic scenery of the Big Smoke Mountains of North Carolina in the Golden Butterfly.

From The Girl Aviators' Motor Butterfly by Margaret Burnham

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