smoker
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: ball-games
baseball
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
Etymology: Etymology tree
English smoke
Proto-Indo-European *-yósder.
Proto-Italic *-āzijos
Latin -āriusnom.
Latin -āriusbor.
Proto-Germanic *-ārijaz
Proto-West Germanic *-ārī
Old English -ere
Middle English -ere
English -er
English smoker
From smoke + -er.
Inflected forms:
form: smokers
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A person who smokes tobacco habitually.
pos: noun
examples: 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!
gloss: A smoking car on a train.
pos: noun
examples: 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.
gloss: An informal social gathering for men only, at which smoking tobacco is allowed.
pos: noun
tags: dated
informal
examples: A smoker at which prizes were distributed was held at the Hotel Victory […]
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.
A morning paper made brief mention of a smoker that was to be given on the following evening by the German minister.
Yes we're gonna have a wingding / A summer smoker underground
gloss: A social event featuring sketches, songs, etc., whether or not smoking is carried out.
pos: noun
tags: UK
dated
informal
examples: All grins and tuxes at some charity smoker in a city-centre hotel.
gloss: A vent in the deep ocean floor from which a plume of superheated seawater, rich in minerals, erupts.
pos: noun
gloss: An illicit boxing match; see Wikipedia:Battle Royal (boxing).
pos: noun
tags: slang
gloss: A device that releases smoke intended to distract bees; a bee smoker.
pos: noun
gloss: A person or an apparatus that smokes food.
pos: noun
gloss: A two-stroke engine.
pos: noun
tags: slang
gloss: Any vehicle with a two-stroke engine, especially a motorcycle, as opposed to a four-stroke motorcycle or stroker.
pos: noun
tags: broadly
slang
gloss: A fastball.
pos: noun
tags: informal
gloss: Synonym of stag film.
pos: noun
tags: slang
gloss: A tobacco pipe that produces smoke well when used.
pos: noun
examples: 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 saving remnant of caution left him.
Antonyms: non-smoker
Derived words: black smoker
chain smoker
chain-smoker
cock smoker
dick smoker
ever-smoker
ever smoker
ex-smoker
never smoker
never-smoker
neversmoker
pipesmoker
pole smoker
pole-smoker
smokeress
smokerette
smoker's cough
smoker's lines
social smoker
white smoker
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