Re: OT- What do you think the following expression means
The word 'smoke' can carry all of the same connotations as 'hot' by association with fire. So smokin' can be used of anything from high speed (leaving someone else in your dust, as others have said) to sexiness (surely everyone here has heard of the 'smoky' gaze?) to just plain 'excellence' at whatever is being described. A sports team can 'smoke' the opposition, but the mere fact that they are performing very well can be expressed as "they are smokin' today" -- i.e. "hot" by the association of smoke and flame/heat.
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