SMOKED

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does smoked mean? 

• SMOKED (adjective)
  The adjective SMOKED has 1 sense:

1. (used especially of meats and fish) dried and cured by hanging in wood smoke

  Familiarity information: SMOKED used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• SMOKED (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

(used especially of meats and fish) dried and cured by hanging in wood smoke

Synonyms:

smoke-cured; smoke-dried; smoked

Similar:

preserved (prevented from decaying or spoiling and prepared for future use)

 Context examples 

“It depends upon those cigarettes that I smoked,” said he.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

He drank a great deal of brandy and smoked very heavily, but he would see no society and did not want any friends, not even his own brother.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Holmes smoked hard, with his brows drawn down over his keen eyes, and his head thrust forward in the eager way characteristic of the man.

(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Crack is smoked in a small glass pipe.

(Cocaine, NIH: National Institute on Drug Abuse)

A cigarette is lit on one end and smoked, and the smoke is usually inhaled into the lungs.

(Cigarette, NCI Dictionary)

He still smoked, but he drank no more.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

Among people who smoked between one and 10 cigarettes per day, the risk of dying from lung cancer was nearly 12 times higher than that of never smokers.

(No safe level of smoking: Even low-intensity smokers are at increased risk of earlier death, National Institutes of Health)

A person who was not smoking at the time of the interview and has smoked less than 100 cigarettes in their life.

(Never Smoker, NCI Thesaurus)

EXAMPLE(S): 2 months is the focalDuration for a question such as "Have you smoked in the last 2 months?".

(Performed Observation Focal Duration, NCI Thesaurus/BRIDG)

A cigar is lit on one end and smoked, but the smoke is usually not inhaled into the lungs.

(Cigar, NCI Dictionary)