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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
smoker
noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a smoker's cough (=one caused by smoking)
heavy smoker
▪ I used to be a heavy smoker.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
black
▪ Being in Alvin isolates us from anything but a visual impression of a black smoker.
▪ Are black smokers hot enough to emit light visible to the shrimp?
▪ I will spend that day in a field of black smokers, just looking.
▪ Raw and powerful, black smokers look like cautionary totems of an inhospitable planet.
▪ The temperature field around a black smoker always surprises me.
▪ I have often worked black smokers in Alvin and I never fail to be awed by them.
▪ Both the white and black smokers supported the same odd fauna that thrived at the Galapagos Ridge.
▪ In Fahrenheit, temperatures of black smokers sound even more impressive, greater than 600o, hotter than molten lead.
current
▪ There were no differences in the body-related attitudes of current smokers compared with ex-smokers.
▪ The results indicated that current smokers showed excess mortality when compared with non-smokers.
▪ The risk was calculated to be 1.53 for current smokers and 1.39 for ex-cigarette smokers.
▪ Therefore, we used the categories current smoker, former smoker, never a smoker, and unknown in our analyses.
▪ The results revealed that current smokers felt significantly less attractive than non-smokers.
heavy
▪ Mrs R. was a heavy smoker, and this was a fire hazard.
▪ The data suggests that it is a bad idea if you are heavy cigarette smokers.
▪ At this age, heavy smokers have 10 to 15 times the rate of fatal heart attacks of nonsmokers.
▪ Occasionally, saturations of greater than 20 percent have been reported in heavy smokers. 402.
▪ Head and neck cancer affects about 500,000 people worldwide each year, mainly heavy smokers and drinkers.
▪ Cigarette smoking can double our risk of dying from a heart attack and heavy smokers are even more likely to die young.
▪ Another effect of the job was that I'd become a heavy smoker.
▪ The children born to heavy smokers are on average 200 grams lighter than those who do not.
male
▪ Cigarette consumption Average weekly cigarette consumption in 1988 was 120 for male smokers and 99 for female smokers.
▪ This may help to explain why male smokers have underweight children.
▪ The increase to an average of 120 cigarettes therefore suggests a reversal of the trend to lower consumption among male smokers.
new
▪ And you must notice in this new first smoker the seats and backs are fitted with embossed crimson leather.
▪ Adolescent girls are the largest group of new smokers in the United States.
▪ Having raised the settlement money by upping the cost of cigarettes, they still get new smokers.
▪ Government lawyers also contended the industry targeted its advertising toward children as potential new smokers.
▪ Cigarette taxes are rising; the number of new smokers is declining.
regular
▪ The earlier children become regular smokers and persist in the habit as adults, the greater the risk of dying prematurely.
▪ They found that more than six out of 10 children with emotional and behavioural problems were regular smokers.
▪ Thirty-two percent of regular smokers reported frequent coughs compared with 22 percent of non-smokers.
▪ Three quarters of the adolescent group were regular smokers.
▪ At this time still a regular smoker, I made one film which made me drastically change my views about it.
■ NOUN
cigar
▪ Of male pipe and cigar smokers, nearly three quarters are ex-cigarette smokers.
▪ Real cigar smokers are getting screwed.
▪ In comparison, the risk for pipe and cigar smokers was only up to 10% higher than nonsmokers.
▪ Why are cigar smokers cool and cigarette smokers scum?
▪ Both are New Yorkers, and obviously a couple of old cigar smokers.
▪ Historical notes profile lady cigar smokers dating back to the 1600s.
▪ Yes, mortality rates among cigarette smokers are way higher than among cigar smokers.
cigarette
▪ A cigarette smoker has two to three times the risk of having a heart attack than a nonsmoker.
▪ The data suggests that it is a bad idea if you are heavy cigarette smokers.
▪ Examination of case notes of patients officially recorded as dying of asthma showed that many were aged over 60 and cigarette smokers.
▪ Why are cigar smokers cool and cigarette smokers scum?
▪ Yes, mortality rates among cigarette smokers are way higher than among cigar smokers.
▪ Fifty one percent of the patients were cigarette smokers.
▪ Meadows was a longtime cigarette smoker, Allen said.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a light smoker/drinker/eater etc
inveterate liar/smoker/womanizer etc
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ The average smoker spends about £35 a week on cigarettes.
▪ The survey shows that most smokers would like to stop smoking.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ For smokers and the very wealthy, the taxes would be higher.
▪ His counterpart, Mr Eagleburger, is a smoker.
▪ Interviews with Moon and other teenage smokers reveal they smoke for the same reason adults do: They enjoy it.
▪ She was certainly not an opium smoker.
▪ The cigarette ban will be most troublesome for smokers on long train journeys.
▪ The report said that disturbed children were more than twice as likely to become smokers as other youngsters.
▪ We felt it was important that smokers limited the time they spend away from their desks.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Smoker

Smoker \Smok"er\, n.

  1. One who dries or preserves by smoke.

  2. One who smokes tobacco or the like.

  3. A smoking car or compartment. [U. S.]

  4. A gathering for smoking and social intercourse. [Colloq.]

    That evening A Company had a ``smoker'' in one of the disused huts of Shorncliffe Camp.
    --Strand Mag.

    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[deg] 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. Additional information is available from [a HREF="http:]/www.nhm.ac.uk/science/mineral/project5/">The Natural History Museum of London and [a HREF="http:]/www.amnhonline.org/expeditions/blacksmokers/">The American Museum of Natural History Expeditions.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
smoker

1590s, "one who cures meat," agent noun from smoke (v.). Meaning "one who smokes tobacco" is from 1610s. Railway meaning "smoking car" is from 1875. Smoker's cough attested from 1898.

Wiktionary
smoker

n. 1 A person who smokes tobacco habitually. 2 A smoking car on a train. 3 An informal social gathering for men only. 4 A vent in the deep ocean floor from which a plume of superheated seawater, rich in minerals, erupts. 5 An illicit boxing match; see Wikipedia:Battle Royal (boxing). 6 A device that releases smoke intended to distract bees (also more specifically called a bee smoker). 7 An apparatus for smoke food, or a person who smokes food. 8 (context UK Cambridge University English) A social event featuring sketches, songs, etc., whether or not smoking is carried out.

WordNet
smoker
  1. n. a person who smokes tobacco [syn: tobacco user] [ant: nonsmoker]

  2. a party for men only (or one considered suitable for men only) [syn: stag party]

  3. a passenger car for passengers who wish to smoke [syn: smoking car, smoking carriage, smoking compartment]

Wikipedia
Smoker

Smoker is a noun derived from smoke and may have the following specialized meanings:

  • Someone who smokes tobacco or cannabis, cigarette substitutes, or various other drugs
  • Smoking (cooking), smoker, an apparatus for smoking (cooking technique)
  • Bee smoker, a tool used in beekeeping
Smoker (surname)

Smoker is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:

  • Barbara Smoker (born 1923), British Humanist activist and freethought advocate
  • George Smoker (1856–1925), English cricketer and footballer
  • Henry Smoker (1881–1966), English cricketer and footballer, son of George Smoker
  • Jeff Smoker (born 1981), American football quarterback
  • Paul Smoker (born 1941), American jazz trumpeter

Usage examples of "smoker".

Karl Acton, rather than simply disappearing, was actually killed by an erupting smoker.

Amazingly this revelation hits thousands of smokers who believed they had addictive personalities until they tried Easyway.

In your homestyle smoker, smoke andouille at 175-200 degrees F for approximately four to five hours using pecan or hickory wood.

Magnussen was a smoker, and though Becker knew the office had been cleaned by the night staff, two ashtrays overflowed with cigar butts, and there were ashes on the floor.

German pipes, of chibouques, with their amber mouthpieces ornamented with coral, and of narghiles, with their long tubes of morocco, awaiting the caprice or the sympathy of the smokers.

Hugh, who had been reading about the dangers of having a smoker as a cohabitee, waved his handkerchief through the air and moved to the edge of the terrace.

I have never been able to understand how in Germany the ladies, otherwise so polite and delicate, could inhale the suffocating fumes of a crowd of smokers.

The pistol fired different types of cartridges--mercy bullets inducing unconsciousness, explosive slugs, gassers, smokers.

Unlike lung cancer, where most of those afflicted were smokers or victims of secondary smoke, glioblastoma had no obvious cause or association.

Both teams kept up the frenetic pace until the very end, when Chinooks goalie Luc Martineau denied the Coyotes a smoker from the blue line.

I moved through the front room, I was forced to run the gauntlet of chain smokers standing four deep at the bar, shifty-eyed guys trying to look a lot hipper than they actually were.

One might have thought all the smokers near the cemetery had specially set out to make Petya and Gavrik rich, for they smoked Kerches exclusively.

Because I knew how to make good kif, and I was making it for real smokers.

The opium smokers had their purchases measured out for them in the front of the store and then went to the rear to sit or recline comfortably while they smoked opium, or if majoon, the blend of opium, hemp, and hellebore, was their preference, smoked, chewed, or ate it.

The jazz joints were closed, the cops in the subways slipped their pennies into the candy machines and received their coated peanuts for the long beat, up and down the platform, looking for mashers, smokers.