Definition of "smoking"

smoking¹

/ˈsməʊkɪŋ/

verb
1. present participle and gerund of smoke
adjective
comparative more smoking, superlative most smoking
1. Giving off smoke.
  Quotations
  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. (slang) Sexually attractive, usually referring to a woman.
3. (slang) Showing great skill or talent.

smoking²

/ˈsməʊkɪŋ/

noun
countable and uncountable, plural smokings
1. The act or process of emitting smoke.
2. The burning and inhalation of tobacco.
  Quotations
  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. (by extension) The burning and inhalation of other substances, e.g. marijuana.
4. (by extension) the process by which foods are cured or flavoured by smoke
5. (slang, obsolete) A bantering; teasing; mockery.