smoking
verb
- 1
To inhale and exhale the smoke from a burning cigarette, cigar, pipe, etc.
“He's smoking his pipe.”
- 2
To inhale and exhale tobacco smoke.
“Do you smoke?”
- 3
To give off smoke.
“My old truck was still smoking even after the repairs.”
- 4
To preserve or prepare (food) for consumption by treating with smoke.
“You'll need to smoke the meat for several hours.”
- 5
To dry or medicate by smoke.
- 6
To fill or scent with smoke; hence, to fill with incense; to perfume.
- 7
To make unclear or blurry.
- 8
(chiefly as present participle) To perform (e.g. music) energetically or skillfully.
“The horn section was really smokin' on that last tune.”
- 9
To beat someone at something.
“We smoked them at rugby.”
- 10
To kill, especially with a gun.
“He got smoked by the mob.”
- 11
To thrash; to beat.
- 12
To smell out; to hunt out; to find out; to detect.
- 13
To ridicule to the face; to mock.
- 14
To burn; to be kindled; to rage.
- 15
To raise a dust or smoke by rapid motion.
- 16
To suffer severely; to be punished.
- 17
To punish (a person) for a minor offense by excessive physical exercise.
- 18
To cover (a key blank) with soot or carbon to aid in seeing the marks made by impressioning.
adjective
- 1
Giving off smoke.
- 2
Sexually attractive, usually referring to a woman.
“That woman is smoking!”
- 3
Showing great skill or talent.
“The band put on a smoking performance.”
noun
- 1
The act or process of emitting smoke.
- 2
The burning and inhalation of tobacco.
“Smoking can lead to lung cancer.”
- 3
(by extension) The burning and inhalation of other substances, e.g. marijuana.
- 4
The act of exposing (something) to smoke; (by extension) the process by which foods are cured or flavoured by smoke
- 5
A bantering; teasing; mockery.
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