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/smˈoʊkər/ Listen

noun

Smoker n.

1.

One who dries or preserves by smoke.

2.

One who smokes tobacco or the like.

3.

A smoking car or compartment, such as a car on a train where smoking is allowed. (U. S.)

4.

A gathering for smoking and social intercourse. (Obsolescent.) "That evening A Company had a "smoker" in one of the disused huts of Shorncliffe Camp."

5.

An amateurish pornographic movie. (Colloq.)

black smoker, a vent at the bottom of the ocean, usually at a mid-ocean ridge, through which large quantities of water carrying minerals flow, producing a jet of fluid with the appearance of black smoke. The ocean water in crevices below the vent is heated to temperatures near 400° C, and dissolves quantities of metal salts, such as of copper, zinc, gold, and manganese. When the saturated mineral solutions exit the vent, cooling by contact with the ocean causes the metals to precipitate, mainly as sulfide or sulfate salts. Unusual forms of life such as tube worms have been found to live in the areas near black smokers.

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Etymology of 'Smoker'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Smoker" Quotes from Famous Books

... he did I would make his children suffer by punishing them instead of their father. At this time my master's wife had two lovers, this same Burmey and one Rogers, and they despised each other from feelings of jealousy. Master's wife seemed to favour Burmey most, who was a great smoker, and she provided him with a large pipe with a German silver bowl, which screwed on the top; this pipe she usually kept on the mantel piece, ready filled with tobacco. One morning I was dusting and sweeping out the dining-room, ...

— Narrative of the Life of J.D. Green, a Runaway Slave, from Kentucky • Jacob D. Green

... his strength and energy as to be able to resume his journey. The lucky Arab gathered as many berries as he could, and having arrived at Aden, informed the mufti of his discovery. That worthy was an inveterate opium-smoker, who had been suffering for years from the influence of the poisonous drug. He tried an infusion of the roasted berries, and was so delighted at the recovery of his former vigor that in gratitude to the tree he called it cahuha which ...

— All About Coffee • William H. Ukers

... again when I take a short cut to what I want to say: "I believe were Christ here now as a missionary amongst us He would be an enthusiastic teetotaller and a non-smoker." ...

— James Gilmour of Mongolia - His diaries, letters, and reports • James Gilmour

... two!" he cried loudly. "If you don't drop it, I'll be off into a smoker at the first stop. Fight it out to-night when you are alone, if you can't agree; but let us off when we are caged up in the same pen. Here! Let's have a game of 'Roadside cribbage.' Bags I the left side! Now then, Dreda, I choose you first. ...

— Etheldreda the Ready - A School Story • Mrs. George de Horne Vaizey

... than tongue can tell," he said, quietly, as he restored the pipe to its owner. "If you could only realise what I have suffered through this deprivation! I, an inveterate smoker; yet suddenly deprived of it, and so kept for ten long years! If I had had a pipe and tobacco, I ...

— The Lost City • Joseph E. Badger, Jr.

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