smoking

verb

1. (form-of, gerund, participle, present)present participle and gerund of smoke

adj

1. Giving off smoke.

   “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.”

2. (slang)Sexually attractive, usually referring to a woman.

   “That woman is smoking!”

3. (slang)Showing great skill or talent.

   “The band put on a smoking performance.”

noun

1. (countable, uncountable)The act or process of emitting smoke.
2. (countable, uncountable)The burning and inhalation of any drug, including tobacco, cannabis, cocaine, and others.
3. (countable, uncountable, usually)The burning and inhalation of any drug, including tobacco, cannabis, cocaine, and others.

   “Smoking can lead to lung cancer.”

4. (countable, especially, uncountable, usually)The burning and inhalation of any drug, including tobacco, cannabis, cocaine, and others.

   “He had the loudest voice of any drill sergeant, and seemed to enjoy the group smokings as well as the individual smokings.”

5. (countable, uncountable)The act of exposing (something) to smoke; (by extension) the process by which foods are cured or flavored by smoke.
6. (countable, obsolete, slang, uncountable)A bantering; teasing; mockery.