Smoking

Quick meaning: Smoking is a verb meaning present participle and gerund of smoke.

Meaning

present participle and gerund of smoke.

More Meanings

1. Giving off smoke.
2. The act or process of emitting smoke.
3. The burning and inhalation of any drug, including tobacco, cannabis, cocaine, and others.
4. The act of exposing (something) to smoke; (by extension) the process by which foods are cured or flavored by smoke.
5. (slang) Sexually attractive, usually referring to a woman.
6. (slang) Showing great skill or talent.
7. (slang, obsolete) A bantering; teasing; mockery.

Example Sentences

That woman is smoking!

The band put on a smoking performance.

Yet had the whole train and all its bombs gone, had the engine crew merely jumped from the train and run as simple self-preservation would have suggested, or unhitched just the engine to make their escape faster, the whole town would have gone and most of the people with it, leaving just a smoking wasteland. Hundreds would have died.

Word Forms

• smokings

Synonyms for smoking

Depending on context, synonyms include smoky, smoke.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include smoky, smoker, cigarette, tobacco, fumigation, fume.

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