Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun One who smokes tobacco.
- noun A device, such as a stove, that emits smoke.
- noun A smoking car.
- noun An informal social gathering for men.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In bee-keeping, an apparatus for creating a smoke to quiet the bees.
- noun An informal gathering of men where smoking is freely indulged in: music, a vaudeville show, cards, etc., are sometimes part of the evening's entertainment.
- noun One who or that which smokes, in any sense of the verb.
- noun See the quotation.
- noun A smoking-car.
- noun The long-billed curlew, Numenius longirostris: so called from the shape of the bill, which looks as if the bird had a pipe in its mouth.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun One who dries or preserves by smoke.
- noun One who smokes tobacco or the like.
- noun United States A smoking car or compartment.
- noun colloq. A gathering for smoking and social intercourse.
- noun a vent at the bottom of the ocean, usually at a mid-ocean ridge, through which large quantities of water carrying minerals flow, producing a jet of fluid with the appearance of black smoke. The ocean water in crevices below the vent is heated to temperatures near 400° C, and dissolves quantities of metal salts, such as of copper, zinc, gold, and manganese. When the saturated mineral solutions exit the vent, cooling by contact with the ocean causes the metals to precipitate, mainly as sulfide or sulfate salts. Unusual forms of life such as
tube worms have been found to live in the areas near black smokers. Additional information is available from The Natural History Museum of London and The American Museum of Natural History Expeditions.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A person who
smokes tobacco habitually. - noun A
smoking car on atrain . - noun An
informal social gathering formen only. - noun A
vent in thedeep ocean floor from which aplume ofsuperheated seawater ,rich inminerals ,erupts . - noun An illicit boxing match; see Wikipedia:Battle Royal (boxing).
- noun A device that releases smoke intended to distract bees (also more specifically called a
bee smoker ). - noun An apparatus for
smoking food, or a person who smokes food. - noun UK An social event featuring sketches, songs, etc., whether or not smoking is carried out.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a party for men only (or one considered suitable for men only)
- noun a person who smokes tobacco
- noun a passenger car for passengers who wish to smoke
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Examples
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They launch a slogan for the movement “we are begging you not to smoke; the identification of a smoker is the big brother of the devil.” the local female are also get involve in that movement.
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My husband never has smoked -- he says its a disgusting habit, especially when the smoker is a woman.
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(The way he shrugs and says "I'm a smoker" is great, like don't worry, I'm normal -- ironic in this setting.)
Samantha Zalaznick: Mad Men Finale Recap: Happily Ever After? Samantha Zalaznick 2010
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[The alleged pot supplier and smoker] is out in three-and-a-half, or less.
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(The way he shrugs and says "I'm a smoker" is great, like don't worry, I'm normal -- ironic in this setting.)
Samantha Zalaznick: Mad Men Finale Recap: Happily Ever After? Samantha Zalaznick 2010
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(The way he shrugs and says "I'm a smoker" is great, like don't worry, I'm normal -- ironic in this setting.)
Samantha Zalaznick: Mad Men Finale Recap: Happily Ever After? Samantha Zalaznick 2010
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The guide that was assigned to me was the camp manager, (a 66 year old chain smoker) that couldn't walk 200 yards without stopping.
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Just passing it along … (Patty is a virulent chain smoker who makes her own just to slow it down a little ….)
Cheeseburger Gothic » A Christmas card from the Playboy Mansion. 2009
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The guide that was assigned to me was the camp manager, (a 66 year old chain smoker) that couldn't walk 200 yards without stopping.
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So each and every smoker is really a chance for science!
john commented on the word smoker
“More than two dozen amateur bouts, called smokers, were scheduled this evening for American Indian boxers.�?
The New York Times, Punching Back Against Despair on the High Plains, by Jeré Longman, February 8, 2009
February 9, 2009