smoking

Meanings

1. 1
   adj

   emitting smoke in great volume

   a smoking fireplace

2. 2
   adj

   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.

3. 3
   adj

   Sexually attractive, usually referring to a woman.

   That woman is smoking!

4. 4
   adj

   Showing great skill or talent.

   The band put on a smoking performance.

5. 5
   noun

   the act of smoking tobacco or other substances

6. 6
   noun

   a hot vapor containing fine particles of carbon being produced by combustion

7. 7
   verb

   present participle and gerund of smoke

8. 8
   noun

   The act or process of emitting smoke.

Etymology

From Middle English smokynge, smokiende, from Old English smociende (“smoking”), from Proto-Germanic *smukōndz (“emitting smoke, smoking”), equivalent to smoke + -ing.