smoking
noun
[ ˈsməʊkɪŋ ]
• the action or habit of inhaling and exhaling the smoke of tobacco by sucking on the end of a lit cigarette, cigar, pipe, etc.
• "the effect of smoking on health"
smoking
adjective
• emitting smoke or visible vapour.
• "they huddled round his smoking fire in the winter damp"
• lively and exciting.
• "this band is really smokin'"
smoke
verb
• emit smoke or visible vapour.
• "heat the oil until it just smokes"
• suck on the end of a lit cigarette, cigar, pipe, etc. so as to inhale and exhale the smoke produced by the burning tobacco into the mouth.
• "she was sitting at the kitchen table smoking"
Similar:
puff on,
draw on,
pull on,
inhale,
light up,
take a drag of,
drag on,
• treat, fumigate, or cleanse by exposure to smoke.
• kill (someone) by shooting.
• "they gotta go smoke this person"
• make fun of (someone).
• "we baited her and smoked her"
Origin:
Old English smoca (noun), smocian (verb), from the Germanic base of smēocan ‘emit smoke’; related to Dutch smook and German Schmauch .
