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Smokey

proper nounnounattested in dialogue

Alternative form of Smokey Bear. Highway patrolman.

proper noun

  1. 1

    Variant of Smokey BearAlternative form of Smokey Bear.

    The plush bear on the near left was produced by Three Bears Inc. around 1985 and is typical of the plush Smokeys produced in the United States.

    Ideal released several more plush Smokeys, but the company's most ingenious move was to include application cards allowing kids to become a "Junior Forest Ranger."

Etymology

Short for Smokey Bear.

noun

  1. 1

    Alternative form of Smokey Bear. Highway patrolman.

    Unless Smokeys were engaged in an active pursuit, they had to stick to highways and pass off suspicious vehicles to local units.

    Mack trucks would replace quarter horses, Smokeys would replace federal marshals, and truckstops would replace saloons as the loci of spontaneous brawls.

  2. 2

    Alternative form of Smokey Bear. A campaign hat.

    She was with the engineers but she wanted to be a drill instructor, and she asked me one day, she said, 'How come you all don't wear the Smokeys?

Forms

plural
Smokeys
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Lexical content from Wiktionary, under CC BY-SA 4.0 · Source entry · Data version 2026-08-23

Rank among the words of the OpenSubtitles 2018 corpus — film and television subtitles, so spoken rather than written usage (CC BY-SA 3.0).