smoker

plural smokers

1. A person who smokes tobacco habitually.

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   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!

   1997, George Carlin, Brain Droppings, New York: Hyperion Books, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 47

   Antonyms: never-smoker, quitter

2. Someone who smokes (something).

   meth smokers

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   a water pipe smoker

   a smoker of cannabis

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.

   1913, Arthur Conan Doyle, “(please specify the page)”, in The Poison Belt […], London; New York, N.Y.: Hodder and Stoughton, →OCLC

4. datedinformalAn informal social gathering for men only, at which smoking tobacco is allowed.

   Yes we're gonna have a wingding / A summer smoker underground

   1982, Donald Fagen, “New Frontier”, in The Nightfly

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   A smoker at which prizes were distributed was held at the Hotel Victory […]

   1904, Forest and Stream, volume 63, page 120

   One of the most unique athletic programs given in Tacoma for a long time, and which should furnish rare fun for the spectators, is scheduled for the smoker given tonight by company A, Second infantry regiment, N. G. W., at the company drill hall, South Twelfth and A streets.

   1908 April 22, The Tacoma Daily Ledger, page 7

   A morning paper made brief mention of a smoker that was to be given on the following evening by the German minister.

   1913 June–December, Edgar Rice Burroughs, “The Plot That Failed”, in The Return of Tarzan, New York, N.Y.: A[lbert] L[evi] Burt Company, […], published March 1915, →OCLC, page 60

5. UKdatedinformalCambridge UniversityA social event featuring sketches, songs, etc., whether or not smoking is carried out.

   All grins and tuxes at some charity smoker in a city-centre hotel.

   2022, Liam McIlvanney, The Heretic, page 129

6. A vent in the deep ocean floor from which a plume of superheated seawater, rich in minerals, erupts.
7. slangAn illicit boxing match; see Wikipedia:Battle Royal (boxing).
8. A device that releases smoke intended to distract bees; a bee smoker.
9. A person or an apparatus that smokes food.
10. slangA two-stroke engine.
11. broadlyslangAny vehicle with a two-stroke engine, especially a motorcycle, as opposed to a four-stroke motorcycle or stroker.
12. informalball gamesA fastball.
13. slangSynonym of stag film.

    Synonyms: stag film

14. A tobacco pipe that produces smoke well when used.

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    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.

    1913, Norman Lindsay, A Curate in Bohemia, Sydney: N.S.W. Bookstall Co., published 1932, page 27

plural Smokers

1. A surname.