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Smokescreen

//ˈsmoʊkˌskɹin// noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    Smoke used as a disguise, mask or cover, as of troops in battle.

    "Ensign Whitely began to tell of the surprise encounter of Admiral Sprague’s escort-carrier force with the main battle line of the Japanese Navy off Samar, in a chaos of rain squalls and smoke screens."

  2. 2
    an action intended to conceal or confuse or obscure wordnet
  3. 3
    Anything used metaphorically to conceal or distract. figuratively

    "All that talk is just a smokescreen to disguise the fact that he has nothing to say."

  4. 4
    (military) screen consisting of a cloud of smoke that obscures movements wordnet

Etymology

From smoke + screen.

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