coner

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Germany/ˈkəʊ̯.nəɹ/

noun

A marijuana cigarette tapered to a conical shape.

RareScrabble 7

Meanings

nounconer (plural coners)

plural coners

  1. CanadaIrelandslangA marijuana cigarette tapered to a conical shape.

    Just wanna go home and smoke coners

    2023 June 3, Wee Joe, “Fun & Games”, 1:17–1:18
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    When I lit my spliff Just met my cat with the fattest coner

    2021 October 12, AC-130, “Bell It X2”, 0:26–0:27
  2. USslanggovernmentAn enlisted submariner not employed in the nuclear field.

    Coners live in the Cone. That’s any space forward of the engine room. They make up the rest of the crew.

    2020 June 16, Aaron Amick, “Nukes, Nubs And Coners: The Unique Social Hierarchy Aboard A Nuclear Submarine”, in TWZ, archived from the original on 29 Jul 2026
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    Non-nukes do everything in their power to stay out of the engineroom. I don't blame them, honestly. That's where a lot of the animosity that nukes have for them comes from, though. The Power Plant Casualty alarm is the "Go Back To Sleep" alarm for the vast majority of coners.

    2016 March 17, u/nowhereian, r/newtothenavy (Reddit post), archived from the original on 01 Sep 2026

    Chief of the Boat. Highest ranking Chief onboard. Almost always a coner, but is possible that they are a nuke transplant (highly unlikely). They usually are delusional, and think that everyone onboard is equally important, and that the coners work as hard as the nukes do.

    2016 September 24, u/Stephonovich, “USN Job Descriptions”, in r/submarines (Reddit post), archived from the original on 05 Jun 2023

Origin

  1. Proto-Indo-European*ḱeh₃-
  2. Proto-Indo-European*ḱóh₃nos
  3. Ancient Greekκῶνος (kônos)
  4. Medieval Latincōnus
  5. Middle Englishcone
  6. Englishcone
  7. Englishconer

From cone + -er. Sense 2 alludes that nonnuclear-trained submariners spend most of their time at the cone of the ship.

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APA

coner. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/coner

MLA

“coner.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/coner. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “coner,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/coner.

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