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smoker

nounattested in dialogue

  • United States//ˈsmoʊkɚ//

A person who smokes tobacco habitually.

noun

  1. 1

    A person who smokes tobacco habitually.

    Even though I don't smoke, I'm not one of those fanatics you run into. In fact, I love watching cigarette smokers in their sad little sealed-off areas, sucking away, deep lines in their faces, precancerous lesions taking hold, the posture and body language of petty criminals. You know what you do with these people? Give 'em free cigarettes. Let 'em smoke. Offer them a light!

  2. 2

    Someone who smokes (something).

    a water pipe smoker

    a smoker of cannabis

    meth smokers

  3. 3

    A smoking car on a train.

    We had all got into a first-class smoker, and he had already lit the short and charred old briar pipe which seemed to singe the end of his long, aggressive nose.

  4. 4

    datedAn informal social gathering for men only, at which smoking tobacco is allowed.

    A smoker at which prizes were distributed was held at the Hotel Victory […]

    One of the most unique athletic programs given in Tacoma for a long time, and which should furnish rare fun for the spectators, is scheduled for the smoker given tonight by company A, Second infantry regiment, N. G. W., at the company drill hall, South Twelfth and A streets.

    A morning paper made brief mention of a smoker that was to be given on the following evening by the German minister.

    Yes we're gonna have a wingding / A summer smoker underground

  5. 5

    datedA social event featuring sketches, songs, etc., whether or not smoking is carried out.

    All grins and tuxes at some charity smoker in a city-centre hotel.

  6. 6

    A vent in the deep ocean floor from which a plume of superheated seawater, rich in minerals, erupts.

  7. 7

    slangAn illicit boxing match; see Wikipedia:Battle Royal (boxing).

  8. 8

    A device that releases smoke intended to distract bees; a bee smoker.

  9. 9

    A person or an apparatus that smokes food.

  10. 10

    slangA two-stroke engine.

  11. 11

    slangAny vehicle with a two-stroke engine, especially a motorcycle, as opposed to a four-stroke motorcycle or stroker.

  12. 12

    informalA fastball.

  13. 13

    slangSynonym of stag film.

  14. 14

    A tobacco pipe that produces smoke well when used.

    Cripps selected from his store a battered pipe that looked as if it had been dug up with a corpse, and smelt worse than it looked, which he handed tenderly to the curate, with an air of conferring on him a sacred trust. "It's a beautiful smoker," he assured the curate, but the curate had still a saving remnant of caution left him.

Etymology

Etymology tree Middle English smoken English smoke Proto-Indo-European *-yósder. Proto-Italic *-āzios Latin -āriusnom. Latin -āriusbor. Proto-Germanic *-ārijaz Proto-West Germanic *-ārī Old English -ere Middle English -ere English -er English smoker From smoke + -er.

Forms

plural
smokers
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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).