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Definition of Smoker

1. Noun. A person who smokes tobacco.

2. Noun. A party for men only (or one considered suitable for men only).

3. Noun. A passenger car for passengers who wish to smoke.

Definition of Smoker

1. n. One who dries or preserves by smoke.

2. n. A gathering for smoking and social intercourse.

Definition of Smoker

1. Noun. A person who smokes tobacco habitually. ¹

2. Noun. A smoking car on a train. ¹

3. Noun. An informal social gathering for men only. ¹

4. Noun. A vent in the deep ocean floor from which a plume of superheated seawater, rich in minerals, erupts. ¹

5. Noun. An illicit boxing match; see w:Battle Royal (boxing). ¹

6. Noun. A device that releases smoke intended to distract bees (also more specifically called a bee smoker). ¹

7. Noun. An apparatus for smoking food, or a person who smokes food. ¹

8. Noun. (UK Cambridge University) An social event featuring sketches, songs, etc., whether or not smoking is carried out. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Smoker

1. one that smokes [n -S] - See also: smokes

Lexicographical Neighbors of Smoker

smokehouses smokejack smokejacks smokejumper smokejumpers smokeless smokeless powder smokelessly smokelessness smokelike

smokepipe smokepipes smokepot smokepots smokeproof smoker's cough smoker's coughs smoker's patches smoker's tongue smokeries

smokers smokery smokes smokes pole smokescreen smokescreens smokeshop smokeshops smokestack

Literary usage of Smoker

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Bee-keeper's Guide: Or Manual of the Apiary by Albert John Cook (1882)
"But best of all is a BELLOWS-smoker. This is a tin tube attached to a bellows. Cloth or rotten wood can be burned in the tube, and will remain burning a ..."

2. The Chinese Recorder and Missionary Journal (1882)
"Being myself a smoker, I know well the injury ;t inflicts, and thus I came to learn that large and small officials and merchants also partook of the drug. ..."

3. Darkness and Daylight; Or, Lights and Shadows of New York Life: A Woman's by Helen Campbell, Thomas Wallace Knox, Thomas Byrnes (1892)
"The best quality of A SLY OPIUM smoker. (This photograph was made by flash-light In a Chinese opium den on Pell street when th« smoker was supposed to be ..."

4. Darkness and Daylight; Or, Lights and Shadows of New York Life: A Woman's by Helen Campbell, Thomas Wallace Knox, Thomas Byrnes (1892)
"The best quality of A SLY OPIUM smoker. (This photograph was made by ... a Chinese opium den on Pell street when the smoker was supposed to be fast asleep. ..."

5. Museum of Painting and Sculpture: Or, Collection of the Principal Pictures ...by Etienne Achille Réveil, Jean Duchesne by Etienne Achille Réveil, Jean Duchesne (1829)
"The figure of (be smoker is designed correctly, and notwithstanding the plainness of his dress, his attitude shews a man of a class superior to that ol the ..."

6. Travel Letters from New Zealand, Australia and Africa by Edgar Watson Howe (1913)
"The smoker estimated the number at fifteen, and said he had been smoking at ... the smoker asked the good man. "Certainly not," was the indignant answer. ..."

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