smoking

1. gerundparticiplepresentpresent participle and gerund of smoke

comparative more smoking · superlative most smoking

1. Giving off smoke.

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   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.

   2022 January 12, Benedict le Vay, “The heroes of Soham...”, in RAIL, number 948, page 43

2. slangSexually attractive, usually referring to a woman.

   That woman is smoking!

3. slangShowing great skill or talent.

   The band put on a smoking performance.

plural smokings

1. countableuncountableThe act or process of emitting smoke.
2. countableuncountableThe burning and inhalation of any drug, including tobacco, cannabis, cocaine, and others.
   1. countableuncountableusuallyThe burning and inhalation of tobacco.

      Smoking can lead to lung cancer.

   2. countableespeciallyuncountableusuallyThe burning and inhalation of cigarettes.

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

      2012, Montgomery J. Granger, Saving Grace at Guantanamo Bay: A Memoir of a Citizen Warrior

3. countableuncountableThe act of exposing (something) to smoke; (by extension) the process by which foods are cured or flavored by smoke.
4. countableobsoleteslanguncountableA bantering; teasing; mockery.