Smoking

Definitions

1. The act or process of emitting smoke.
   countable, uncountable
2. The burning and inhalation of any drug, including tobacco, cannabis, cocaine, and others.
   countable, uncountable
3. The burning and inhalation of tobacco.
   countable, uncountable, usually
4. The burning and inhalation of cigarettes.
   countable, especially, uncountable, usually
5. The act of exposing (something) to smoke; (by extension) the process by which foods are cured or flavored by smoke.
   countable, uncountable
6. A bantering; teasing; mockery.
   countable, obsolete, slang, uncountable

Equivalents

Examples

“Smoking can lead⟳ to lung cancer.”

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

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