See also: Smoker

English edit

Etymology edit

From smoke +‎ -er.

Pronunciation edit

  • (US) IPA(key): /ˈsmoʊkɚ/
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  • Rhymes: -əʊkə(ɹ)

Noun edit

smoker (plural smokers)

  1. A person who smokes tobacco habitually.
    Antonyms: never-smoker, quitter
    Hypernym: ever-smoker
    • 1997, George Carlin, Brain Droppings[1], 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.
  3. (informal, dated) An informal social gathering for men only, at which smoking tobacco is allowed.
    • (Can we date this quote?)
      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.
    • 2022, Liam McIlvanney, The Heretic, page 129:
      All grins and tuxes at some charity smoker in a city-centre hotel.
  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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