smokeasy

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noun

An establishment where patrons are permitted to smoke despite a general ban.

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Meanings

nounsmokeasy (plural smokeasies)

plural smokeasies · alternative smoke-easy · alternative smokeeasy

  1. An establishment where patrons are permitted to smoke despite a general ban.

    My passport was an engraved invitation on expensive parchment paper. Inside a border of fanciful Morrocan ormentation was inscribed in elaborate script the name of the smokeasy: “Au Contraire.”

    1979, Albert Harry Goldman, Grass Roots: Marijuana in America Today, Harper & Row, →ISBN, page 14

Origin

Blend of smoke + speakeasy.

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Cite this entry
APA

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

MLA

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

Chicago

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

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