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Smokey
Definitions
- 1 Alternative spelling of smoky. alt-of, alternative
"One day Rodolphe, who had been jugged for some slight choreographic extravagances, stumbled upon an uncle of his, one Monetti, a stove maker and smokey chimney doctor, and sargeant of the National Guard, whom he had not seen for an age."
- 1 Alternative form of Smokey Bear. alt-of, alternative
"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."
- 1 A state trooper.
"By the time we got into Tulsa Town We had eighty-five trucks in all But there's a roadblock up on the cloverleaf And them bears was wall-to-wall. Yeah, them smokies is thick as bugs on a bumper They even had a bear in the air."
- 2 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."
- 3 A cop, a police officer. broadly, slang
- 4 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?"
Etymology
Short for Smokey Bear (“a cartoon Park Ranger”).
Short for Smokey Bear.
Short for Smokey Bear.
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