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Smoky Mountains

British  

plural noun

  1. See Great Smoky Mountains

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They won’t tell AI just to look for a “black zip-up fleece”; they will tell it that they’re going hiking next week in the Smoky Mountains and need a slim-fitting fleece to keep them warm.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 22, 2026

The book, which is equal parts entertaining and incisive, charts how the “I Will Always Love You” singer was born in a family of 12 children at the foothills of the Great Smoky Mountains.

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 22, 2026

Born into crushing poverty in the foothills of the Great Smoky Mountains, her father paid the doctor who delivered her with a sack of cornmeal.

From Salon • Jan. 19, 2026

Many fireflies also live in the Great Smoky Mountains, in Tennessee.

From Seattle Times • Jul. 29, 2023

I have built campfires in the Rocky Mountains of Colorado, and hunted wild turkey in the Smoky Mountains of Tennessee and the Blue Ridge Mountains of Virginia.

From "Summer of the Monkeys" by Wilson Rawls