OT- What do you think the following expression means

[TerranC]

Originally posted by primitive:

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Originally posted by tesco samoa:
....... canadian culture...

Well,
You learn something new every day. I had no idea such a thing exsisted

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I don't get it.

[Thermodyne]

Well the oldest reference I have seen with it referred to shooting people with hand guns in the early 18th century. It referred to the large amount of smoke that exited the wound. This was from the slow burning powder being forced into the wound with the round. Pistols were very short range weapons in the days before grooved barrels. This use has made it to the 21st century as a way of replacing the word "kill".

In my life it has been mostly used to describe a sound defeat in a car race. Smoked em, Blew the doors off, and Shut’em down, all meaning the same thing.

Of late the kids around here use it to acknowledge the delivery of a stinging insult.

[Kamog]

I know! Well, in my experience, "smoked him" means ... oops, I have an answer but I'll hold off on posting it, as per Tesco's request. (I live in Canada, and nobody has mentioned the "correct" answer yet. )

[PvK]

Does it mean "fooled"? As in, deceived by a smoke screen?

PvK

[Loser]

Originally posted by Thermodyne:
Well the oldest reference I have seen with it referred to shooting people with hand guns in the early 18th century. It referred to the large amount of smoke that exited the wound. This was from the slow burning powder being forced into the wound with the round. Pistols were very short range weapons in the days before grooved barrels. This use has made it to the 21st century as a way of replacing the word "kill".

Ooo.... likes this one.

[Puke]

I've heard it in all of the contexts below, but since our cultured Canadians suggest that their definition has not been hit yet, im sure we can turn it into something juvinile and sexual. well, at least as long as its a 'him' whom is being smoked.

That said, wither or not it refers to exhaust, burning rubber, or gunshot, it is alwasy an analogy for defeat. The particular circumstances could be almost anything, from being beaten in a gunfight or race, to having your advances turned down by a member of the oposite sex, to being defeated in a game of SE4.

On the other hand, if the him whom is being smoked happens to be a yellowtail or a wild pig, odds are it quite literally refers to a piece of meat in a smoker.

[Narratio]

Got to agree with Puke. In engineering terms it means that you've destroyed something. Sometimes deliberate, sometimes by accident. Thus "Smoke Testing" is where you run something to destruction, it catches fire etc.

[Gryphin]

We used it when playing with miniatures. We referred to tanks we had blown up as "Smoked". Usualy identified by a small piece of cotton placed on.

[geoschmo]

Well, Candian Bacon is smoked sured ham isn't it? Maybe it has something to do with that? But I don't see how one guy could smoke cure another.

[tesco samoa]

alright now the canadians turn to answer