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Smoker
Definitions
- 1 A surname.
- 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 a passenger car for passengers who wish to smoke wordnet
- 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 a party for men only (or one considered suitable for men only) wordnet
- 5 An informal social gathering for men only, at which smoking tobacco is allowed. dated, informal
"A smoker at which prizes were distributed was held at the Hotel Victory […]"
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- 6 a person who smokes tobacco wordnet
- 7 A social event featuring sketches, songs, etc., whether or not smoking is carried out. UK, dated, informal
"All grins and tuxes at some charity smoker in a city-centre hotel."
- 8 A vent in the deep ocean floor from which a plume of superheated seawater, rich in minerals, erupts.
- 9 An illicit boxing match; see Wikipedia:Battle Royal (boxing). slang
- 10 A device that releases smoke intended to distract bees; a bee smoker.
- 11 A person or an apparatus that smokes food.
- 12 A two-stroke engine. slang
- 13 Any vehicle with a two-stroke engine, especially a motorcycle, as opposed to a four-stroke motorcycle or stroker. broadly, slang
- 14 A fastball. informal
- 15 Synonym of stag film. slang
- 16 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
From smoke + -er.
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