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smoko

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smoko, smokeho [ˈsməʊkəʊ]
n pl -kos, -hos
(Business / Industrial Relations & HR Terms) Austral and NZ informal a short break from work for tea, a cigarette, etc.
[from smoke + -o]
Translations
smoko
n (Austral inf) (= cigarette break)Zigarettenpause f; (= coffee break)Kaffeepause f


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For example, at smoko sometimes I imagined I was sitting in a meeting of the Ku Klux Klan.
Wendy and Matthew start lessons at 9am and do three 90-minute sessions, stopping for smoko - the traditional Falklands mid-morning tea - and lunch.
Log-Laden trucks pull over the weighbridge and the drivers run to the smoko room, with its battered chairs and tables, bags strewn over the floor, broken coffee dispenser, dirty mugs and fluorescent Lights.
 
 
 
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