means Treated with smoke for flavor or preservation, or — in slang — thoroughly defeated, beaten, or destroyed.

from From Old English 'smocian,' to emit or treat with smoke, rooted in the Proto-Germanic 'smukōn' and likely a cousin of words across the Germanic family. The cooking sense is ancient — humans hung meat over fire long before they wrote about it. The slang 'got smoked,' meaning crushed or outclassed, is a modern American extension, leaning on the image of something burned away, gone up in smoke, or left in the dust like exhaust.