smoker

From smoke +‎ -er.

• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈsmoʊkɚ/

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• Rhymes: -əʊkə(ɹ)

smoker (plural smokers)

1. A person who smokes tobacco habitually.

   Antonyms: never-smoker, quitter

   Hypernym: ever-smoker

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

     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!

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

     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.

3. (informal, dated) An informal social gathering for men only, at which smoking tobacco is allowed.
   • The Tacoma Daily Ledger, April 22nd 1908, page 7

     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.

   • 1982, Donald Fagen (lyrics and music), “New Frontier”, in The Nightfly:

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

4. (informal, dated, UK, Cambridge University) A social event featuring sketches, songs, etc., whether or not smoking is carried out.
   • 2022, Liam McIlvanney, The Heretic, page 129:

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

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

• non-smoker

• smokeress (female, dated, rare)

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