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smokey¹

Rhymes with -əʊki

adjective

  1. alternative Alternative spelling of smoky 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.

smokey²

Rhymes with -əʊki

Where it comes from

Short for Smokey Bear (“a cartoon Park Ranger”).

noun smokies · smokeys

  1. A state trooper. 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.
  2. broadly, slang A cop, a police officer.

Smokey³

Where it comes from

Short for Smokey Bear.

proper noun Smokeys

  1. alternative Alternative 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.

noun Smokeys

  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.
  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?

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Closest in meaning: herbie, bear, smoke eater, smokey bear, cobbler, copper, moke, blue, sheepdog, cracker, smoker, copstache, chippie, badge, jake, big smoke

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@misc{smokey_2026,
  title = {smokey},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/smokey},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}