smoker

See also: Smoker

English

Etymology

From smoke +‎ -er.

Pronunciation
  • (US) IPA(key): /ˈsmoʊkɚ/
  • Audio (AU)(file)
  • Rhymes: -əʊkə(ɹ)

Noun

smoker (plural smokers)

  1. A person who smokes tobacco habitually.
    • 1997, Carlin, George, Brain Droppings‎, New York: Hyperion Books, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 47:
      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. A smoking car on a train.
    • 1913, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, The Poison Belt‎:
      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.
  3. (informal, dated) An informal social gathering for men only, at which smoking tobacco is allowed.
    • Strand Magazine
      That evening A Company had a "smoker" in one of the disused huts of Shorncliffe Camp.
    • 1982, Donald Fagen (lyrics and music), “New Frontier”, in The Nightfly:
      Yes we're gonna have a wingding / A summer smoker underground
  4. (informal, dated, UK, Cambridge University) A social event featuring sketches, songs, etc., whether or not smoking is carried out.
  5. A vent in the deep ocean floor from which a plume of superheated seawater, rich in minerals, erupts.
  6. (slang) An illicit boxing match; see Wikipedia:Battle Royal (boxing).
  7. A device that releases smoke intended to distract bees; a bee smoker.
  8. A person or an apparatus that smokes food.
  9. (slang) A two-stroke engine.
  10. (slang, by extension) Any vehicle with a two-stroke engine, especially a motorcycle, as opposed to a four-stroke motorcycle or stroker.
  11. (baseball, informal) A fastball.
  12. (slang) Synonym of stag film

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Translations
smoking car — see smoking car
bee smoker — see bee smoker

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