n.
1.a message that tells the particulars of an act or occurrence or course of events
2.a piece of fiction that narrates a chain of related events
3.structure consisting of a room or set of rooms comprising a single level of a multilevel building
4.a record or narrative description of past events
5.a short account of the news
6.a trivial lie
Idiom of the Day
smoke (someone or something) out or smoke out (someone or something)
to force someone or something out with smoke
We smoked the rats out of their nests with the smoke.