smokey

1. alternativeAlternative spelling of smoky.

   The kind who craves an "alternative to the smokey bar scene," says the studio's Web site, in the form of an "invigorating candlelight yoga class accompanied by great live music."

   2005 June 10, Liz Armstrong, “Summertime, and the Pleasures Are Guilty”, in Chicago Reader

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   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.

   1888, Henry Murger, Bohemians of the Latin Quarter

plural smokies · plural smokeys

1. CB slangA state trooper.

   The middle position, or "rocking chair," is so called because the drivers in the middle don't have to worry about watching for smokeys.

   1977, Terry Cook, Vans and the Truckin' Life, page 27

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   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.

   1975, “Convoy”, in C.W. McCall, Chip Davis (lyrics), Black Bear Road, performed by C. W. McCall

   I was keeping an eye out for the smokeys who were no doubt hiding and waiting for unsuspecting tourists on the way in from Jacksonville.

   2007, Ben W. Thompson, M'Naghten Rules, →ISBN

   Well let me tell you why I came, Crash: I need something from you, tonight. I had a four-man team for a big grab, lost one to smokies. I came looking to replace him, if you're still a badass.

   2014, Nic Pizzolatto, 42:30 from the start, in True Detective, season 1, episode 4, spoken by Ginger (Joseph Sikora)

2. broadlyslangA cop, a police officer.

plural Smokeys

1. alternativeAlternative form of Smokey Bear.

   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.

   1995, Sue Pearson, Dottie Ayers, Teddy bears: a guide to their history, collecting, and care, →ISBN, page 111

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   Ideal released several more plush Smokeys, but the company's most ingenious move was to include application cards allowing kids to become a "Junior Forest Ranger."

   1998, Dana Cain, Film and TV Animal Star Collectibles, →ISBN, page 55

plural Smokeys

1. Alternative form of Smokey Bear.
   1. Highway patrolman.

      Unless Smokeys were engaged in an active pursuit, they had to stick to highways and pass off suspicious vehicles to local units.

      1997, Tony Chiu, Positive Match, →ISBN, page 384

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      Mack trucks would replace quarter horses, Smokeys would replace federal marshals, and truckstops would replace saloons as the loci of spontaneous brawls.

      2008, Shane Hamilton, Trucking Country: The Road to America's Wal-Mart Economy, →ISBN, page 221

      Sky-eye had been concentrating on S.O.B. flying over them into space and would have missed the forty odd Smokeys heading south towards the crest from the north and forty three Smokeys heading north from the south towards them but the explosion blew it round and it was very close and level with the road as Smokey after Smokey shot into the air over the crest, crashed head on into a neighbouring county's car and both fell back to earth as scrap.

      2014, Jim Ore, Crime is Everywhere, →ISBN, page 243

   2. 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?

      2007, Larry Smith, The Few and the Proud: Marine Corps Drill Instructors in Their Own Words, →ISBN