smokers

Noun

smoker (plural smokers)

1. A person who smokes tobacco habitually.
   • 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...1997, George Carlin, Brain Droppings, New York: Hyperion Books, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 47

   Antonyms:

   never-smoker, quitter

2. Someone who smokes (something).
   • a water pipe smoker
3. A smoking car on a train.
   • 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.1913, Arthur Conan Doyle, “(please specify the page)”, in The Poison Belt […], London; New York, N.Y.: Hodder and Stoughton, →OCLC
4. (dated, informal) An informal social gathering for men only, at which smoking tobacco is allowed.
   • A smoker at which prizes were distributed was held at the Hotel Victory […]1904, Forest and Stream, volume 63, page 120
5. (UK, dated, informal, Cambridge University) A social event featuring sketches, songs, etc., whether or not smoking is carried out.
   • All grins and tuxes at some charity smoker in a city-centre hotel.2022, Liam McIlvanney, The Heretic, page 129
6. A vent in the deep ocean floor from which a plume of superheated seawater, rich in minerals, erupts.

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