Etymology From Middle English smokynge, smokiende, from Old English smociende (“smoking”), from Proto-Germanic *smukōndz (“emitting smoke, smoking”), equivalent to smoke + -ing.
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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.2022 January 12, Benedict le Vay, “The heroes of Soham...”, in RAIL, number 948, page 43:
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Slang Sexually attractive, usually referring to a woman.
Etymology From Middle English smokyng, smokynge, equivalent to smoke + -ing.
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The act or process of emitting smoke.
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The burning and inhalation of any drug, including tobacco, cannabis, cocaine, and others.
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Usually The burning and inhalation of tobacco.
Smoking can lead to lung cancer.
› The burning and inhalation of any drug… › The burning and inhalation of tobacco.
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Especially, Usually The 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:
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The act of exposing (something) to smoke; (by extension) the process by which foods are cured or flavored by smoke.