smoking
♦ smok|ing /sm'oʊkɪŋ/
1 [N-UNCOUNT]
Smoking is the act or habit of smoking cigarettes, cigars, or a pipe.
Smoking is now banned in many places of work.
...a no-smoking area.
2 [ADJ] ADJ n
A smoking area is intended for people who want to smoke.
...the decision to scrap smoking compartments on Kent trains.
3
see also smoke, passive smokingpas|sive smok|ing
[N-UNCOUNT]
Passive smoking involves breathing in the smoke from other people's cigarettes because you happen to be near them.
...the dangers of passive smoking.smok|ing gun (smoking guns)
[N-COUNT] usu sing
A smoking gun is a piece of evidence that proves that something is true or that someone is responsible for a crime. (mainly AM or JOURNALISM)
The search for other kinds of evidence tying him to trafficking has not produced a smoking gun.
1 [N-UNCOUNT]
Smoking is the act or habit of smoking cigarettes, cigars, or a pipe.
Smoking is now banned in many places of work.
...a no-smoking area.
2 [ADJ] ADJ n
A smoking area is intended for people who want to smoke.
...the decision to scrap smoking compartments on Kent trains.
3
see also smoke, passive smokingpas|sive smok|ing
[N-UNCOUNT]
Passive smoking involves breathing in the smoke from other people's cigarettes because you happen to be near them.
...the dangers of passive smoking.smok|ing gun (smoking guns)
[N-COUNT] usu sing
A smoking gun is a piece of evidence that proves that something is true or that someone is responsible for a crime. (mainly AM or JOURNALISM)
The search for other kinds of evidence tying him to trafficking has not produced a smoking gun.