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Smoke screen   /smoʊk skrin/   Listen
Smoke screen

noun
1.
(military) screen consisting of a cloud of smoke that obscures movements.  Synonym: smokescreen.
2.
An action intended to conceal or confuse or obscure.  Synonym: smokescreen.






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"Smoke screen" Quotes from Famous Books



... turned away from Germany, the Germans made a supreme effort to escape toward the south-west, thus completing their circle round the bull's-eye, as Jellicoe began to round them up from the inner. Their destroyers spouted forth an immense grey smoke screen; the mist helped them to hide; and the sun went into a bank of clouds. As they ran they fired shoals of torpedoes, which are much deadlier for the chasers, who go toward them, than for the chased, who go from them. ...
— Flag and Fleet - How the British Navy Won the Freedom of the Seas • William Wood



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