smoker

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smoker¹

  • /ˈsmoʊkɚ/ US

Rhymes with -əʊkə(ɹ)

noun smokers

  1. A person who smokes tobacco habitually. 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 wi

    Opposite: never-smoker, quitter

  2. with specified substance or instrument Someone who smokes (something). a water pipe smoker
  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.
  4. dated, informal An informal social gathering for men only, at which smoking tobacco is allowed. A smoker at which prizes were distributed was held at the Hotel Victory […]
  5. UK, dated, informal A 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.
  6. A vent in the deep ocean floor from which a plume of superheated seawater, rich in minerals, erupts.
  7. slang An 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. slang A two-stroke engine.
  11. broadly, slang Any vehicle with a two-stroke engine, especially a motorcycle, as opposed to a four-stroke motorcycle or stroker.
  12. informal A fastball.
  13. slang Synonym of stag film.

    Similar: stag film

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

Opposite: non-smoker

Smoker²

proper noun Smokers

  1. A surname.

Thesaurus

Closest in meaning: smoking carriage, smoking car, stag party, smoking compartment, tobacco user, cigarette, tobacco, smoking, smoke, smoked, person, pop, smokes, wrk, ever-smoker, pipesmoker

noun

Opposite: non-smoker

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noun person who smokes tobacco habitually

Españolfumador, fumadora
한국어흡연자 heubyeonja
日本語喫煙者 kitsuensha
中文吸煙者 /吸烟者 xīyānzhě, 煙民 /烟民 yānmín
Kiswahilimvutaji sigara
Portuguêsfumante, fumador
Françaisfumeur, fumeuse
DeutschRaucher, Raucherin
Italianofumatore, fumatrice
Ελληνικάκαπνιστής kapnistís
Românăfumător, fumătoare
Русскийкуря́щий kurjáščij, куря́щая kurjáščaja, кури́льщик kurílʹščik, кури́льщица kurílʹščica, куря́га kurjága, куря́ка kurjáka
Tiếng Việtngười nghiện hút
العربيةمُدَخِّن mudaḵḵin, مُدَخِّنَة mudaḵḵina
עבריתמְעַשֵּׁן me'ashen

noun apparatus for smoking food

Portuguêsdefumador
Françaisfumoir
DeutschRäucherofen
Ελληνικάκαπνιστήριο kapnistírio

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@misc{smoker_2026,
  title = {smoker},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/smoker},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}