Smoker

Definition: Smoker

Smoker

Noun

1. A person who smokes tobacco.

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

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

Date "smoker" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1822. (references)

Domain	Definition
Occupations	Controls battery of smoke chambers in which meats, such as bacon, hams, meat loaf, sausage, shoulders, and wieners are cooked and cured: Loads racks and cages, suspended from overhead conveyor, with meat products and filled molds, and pushes racks into smokehouse for cooking and curing. Shovels sawdust into hopper of smoker and lights burner to ignite sawdust. Starts electric blower to admit air and blow smoke into curing chambers. Observes gauges, turns steam valves, and adjusts ventilators and dampers to regulate temperature, humidity, and density of smoke to control cooking and curing process. Inspects meat for color, feels meat for firmness, and inserts thermometer into meat to ascertain progress of cooking and curing. Opens water valve to spray and chill meat. Removes cooked and cured meat and empties molds. Places meat loaves on racks and returns them to smokehouse for further smoking and drying. Pushes racks of cured meat to chill room. May stuff meat loaves into plastic casings, using horn (funnel-shaped tube). May record weight and amount of meat cured. May steam-clean smoke chambers and heating coils, and remove ash. (references)
Slang in 1811	SMOKER. A tobacconist. Source: 1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue.
Transportation	A railroad car on compartment in which smoking is allowed. Source: European Union. (references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Synonyms: Smoker

Synonyms: smoking car (n), smoking carriage (n), smoking compartment (n), stag party (n), tobacco user (n). (additional references)

Antonym: nonsmoker (n). (additional references)

Context	Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).
Sociality	Party, entertainment, reception, levee, at, home, conversazione, soiree, matin_e; evening party, morning party, afternoon party, bridge party, garden party, surprise party; kettle, kettle drum; partie carr_e, dish of tea, ridotto, rout; housewarming; ball, festival; smoker, smoker-party;sociable, stag party, hen party, tamasha; tea-party, tea-fight. (amusement); " the feast of reason and the flow of soul ".
The Drama	Western, horse opera; flick; spy film, love story, adventure film, documentary, nature film; pornographic film, smoker, skin flick, X-rated film.
Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

Crosswords: Smoker

English words defined with "smoker": chain-smoker, cigar smoker, cigarette smoker, cough ♦ mouthpiece ♦ pipe smoker. (references)

Specialty definitions using "smoker": COLE ♦ joneser ♦ meat smoker ♦ OFFBEARER, PIPE SMOKING MACHINE ♦ pipe smoking machine operator ♦ smokehouse attendant, spliff, Stimulants of Great Men, story. (references)

Domain	Usage
Screenplays	He'd turn Buddha into a chain smoker. (Kolchak: The Night Stalker; writing credit: David Chase; Rudolph Borchert)
Movie/TV Titles	Bill Gives a Smoker (1915) The Smoker (1910)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Domain	Title
Books	Helping the Hard-Core Smoker : A Clinician's Guide (reference) Smoker (reference) The Journals of Redkamel: Observations of a 20 Year Old Chain Smoker (reference) (more book examples)

Music	Dick Smoker Plus [Split] (reference) (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

Consumer Goods	CMI Stainless Steel Stovetop Smoker (reference) (more baby examples; more wireless phone examples; more garden examples; more kitchen examples; more tool examples)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Thumbnail	Description & Credit	Thumbnail	Description & Credit
	Cross section of a human lung. The white area in the upper lobe is cancer, the black areas indicate the patient was a smoker. See artwork: SS-10. Credit: Unknown photographer/artist.		Arthur Godfrey, popular entertainer and smoker who later died of lung cancer, touts Chesterfield cigarettes as safe and "best for me." Tobacco, smoking. Credit: CDC.
	Early "smoker" meeting. Credit: NASA.		Black smoker at a mid-ocean ridge hydrothermal vent. Credit: National Undersea Research Program (NURP).
	Tube worms feeding at base of a black smoker chimney hydrothermal vent. Credit: National Undersea Research Program (NURP).		The outfit of the opium smoker. / Official photograph issued by the Narcotics Bureau, Hong Kong Police. Credit: National Library of Medicine.
	Inside Every Smoker is an Ex-smoker. Credit: National Library of Medicine.		Adopt a Smoker : Help a friend quit. Credit: National Library of Medicine.
Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

Author	Quotation
George Eliot	Gossip is a sort of smoke that comes from the dirty tobacco-pipes of those who diffuse it: it proves nothing but the bad taste of the smoker.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Subject	Topic	Quote
Health		Homogenous leukoplakia in the floor of the mouth in a smoker. (references)
		Through inhaling smoke, the average smoker takes in 1 to 2 mg nicotine per cigarette. (references)
		If a smoker stops smoking before serious COPD develops, the rate at which lung function declines returns to almost normal. (references)
Lexicography	Devil's Dictionary	STORY, n. A narrative, commonly untrue. The truth of the stories here following has, however, not been successfully impeached. One evening Mr. Rudolph Block, of New York, found himself seated at dinner alongside Mr. Percival Pollard, the distinguished critic. "Mr. Pollard," said he, "my book, The Biography of a Dead Cow, is published anonymously, but you can hardly be ignorant of its authorship. Yet in reviewing it you speak of it as the work of the Idiot of the Century. Do you think that fair criticism?" "I am very sorry, sir," replied the critic, amiably, "but it did not occur to me that you really might not wish the public to know who wrote it." Mr. W.C. Morrow, who used to live in San Jose, California, was addicted to writing ghost stories which made the reader feel as if a stream of lizards, fresh from the ice, were streaking it up his back and hiding in his hair. San Jose was at that time believed to be haunted by the visible spirit of a noted bandit named Vasquez, who had been hanged there. The town was not very well lighted, and it is putting it mildly to say that San Jose was reluctant to be out o' nights. One particularly dark night two gentlemen were abroad in the loneliest spot within the city limits, talking loudly to keep up their courage, when they came upon Mr. J.J. Owen, a well-known journalist. "Why, Owen," said one, "what brings you here on such a night as this? You told me that this is one of Vasquez' favorite haunts! And you are a believer. Aren't you afraid to be out?" "My dear fellow," the journalist replied with a drear autumnal cadence in his speech, like the moan of a leaf-laden wind, "I am afraid to be in. I have one of Will Morrow's stories in my pocket and I don't dare to go where there is light enough to read it." Rear-Admiral Schley and Representative Charles F. Joy were standing near the Peace Monument, in Washington, discussing the question, Is success a failure? Mr. Joy suddenly broke off in the middle of an eloquent sentence, exclaiming: "Hello! I've heard that band before. Santlemann's, I think." "I don't hear any band," said Schley. "Come to think, I don't either," said Joy; "but I see General Miles coming down the avenue, and that pageant always affects me in the same way as a brass band. One has to scrutinize one's impressions pretty closely, or one will mistake their origin." While the Admiral was digesting this hasty meal of philosophy General Miles passed in review, a spectacle of impressive dignity. When the tail of the seeming procession had passed and the two observers had recovered from the transient blindness caused by its effulgence -- "He seems to be enjoying himself," said the Admiral. "There is nothing," assented Joy, thoughtfully, "that he enjoys one-half so well." The illustrious statesman, Champ Clark, once lived about a mile from the village of Jebigue, in Missouri. One day he rode into town on a favorite mule, and, hitching the beast on the sunny side of a street, in front of a saloon, he went inside in his character of teetotaler, to apprise the barkeeper that wine is a mocker. It was a dreadfully hot day. Pretty soon a neighbor came in and seeing Clark, said: "Champ, it is not right to leave that mule out there in the sun. He'll roast, sure! -- he was smoking as I passed him." "O, he's all right," said Clark, lightly; "he's an inveterate smoker." The neighbor took a lemonade, but shook his head and repeated that it was not right. He was a conspirator. There had been a fire the night before: a stable just around the corner had burned and a number of horses had put on their immortality, among them a young colt, which was roasted to a rich nut-brown. Some of the boys had turned Mr. Clark's mule loose and substituted the mortal part of the colt. Presently another man entered the saloon. "For mercy's sake!" he said, taking it with sugar, "do remove that mule, barkeeper: it smells." "Yes," interposed Clark, "that animal has the best nose in Missouri. But if he doesn't mind, you shouldn't." In the course of human events Mr. Clark went out, and there, apparently, lay the incinerated and shrunken remains of his charger. The boys idd not have any fun out of Mr. Clarke, who looked at the body and, with the non-committal expression to which he owes so much of his political preferment, went away. But walking home late that night he saw his mule standing silent and solemn by the wayside in the misty moonlight. Mentioning the name of Helen Blazes with uncommon emphasis, Mr. Clark took the back track as hard as ever he could hook it, and passed the night in town. General H.H. Wotherspoon, president of the Army War College, has a pet rib-nosed baboon, an animal of uncommon intelligence but imperfectly beautiful. Returning to his apartment one evening, the General was surprised and pained to find Adam (for so the creature is named, the general being a Darwinian) sitting up for him and wearing his master's best uniform coat, epaulettes and all. "You confounded remote ancestor!" thundered the great strategist, "what do you mean by being out of bed after naps? -- and with my coat on!" Adam rose and with a reproachful look got down on all fours in the manner of his kind and, scuffling across the room to a table, returned with a visiting-card: General Barry had called and, judging by an empty champagne bottle and several cigar-stumps, had been hospitably entertained while waiting. The general apologized to his faithful progenitor and retired. The next day he met General Barry, who said: "Spoon, old man, when leaving you last evening I forgot to ask you about those excellent cigars. Where did you get them?" General Wotherspoon did not deign to reply, but walked away. "Pardon me, please," said Barry, moving after him; "I was joking of course. Why, I knew it was not you before I had been in the room fifteen minutes."
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Speaker	Phrase(s)
Ann Richards	I know that my alcoholism affected osteoporosis. And I was also a smoker. Smoking is very bad for your bones. So absolutely it is a factor in my osteoporosis.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

"Smoker" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 99.48% of the time. "Smoker" is used about 192 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Noun (singular)	99.48%	191	22,216
Noun (proper)	0.52%	1	339,140
Total	100.00%	192	N/A

The following table summarizes the usage of "smoker" based on a population census conducted in the United States. Ranks and frequencies are based on all names reported and classified.

Name	Usage/Gender	Usage per 100 million Persons	Rank in USA
Smoker	Last name	170	54,153
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

Expressions using "smoker": black smoker ♦ chain smoker ♦ cigar smoker ♦ cigarette smoker ♦ heavy smoker ♦ pipe smoker. Additional references.
Hypenated Usage
	Ending with "smoker": ex-smoker, non-smoker.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.

Language		Translations for "smoker"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Albanian		vagon ku lejohet duhani (smoking car, smoking-carriage), duhanxhi, duhanpirës. (various references)

Arabic		‏المدخن. (various references)

Bulgarian		пушач (nicotian). (various references)

Chinese		吸烟者. (various references)

Czech		vagón pro kuřáky, kuřák. (various references)

Danish		roegpuster. (various references)

Dutch		imkerpijp. (various references)

Farsi		وسیله ای که تولیددودکند, واگن یااتاق مخصوص استعمال دخانیات , اهل دود, اهل دخانیات , دوددهنده میوه وگوشت وامثال ان . (various references)

Finnish		savutin, tupakkamies, tupakanpolttaja. (various references)

French		fumeur. (various references)

German		Raucher (smokers, smoking compartment). (various references)

Greek		καπνιστήρι, καπνιστήσ, καπνιστής, βαγόνι καπνίσματοσ. (various references)

Hebrew		מעשן, קרון עשון, עשנן, עשנאי. (various references)

Hungarian		dohányos (nicotian). (various references)

Indonesian		perokok. (various references)

Italian		fumatore (puffer, smokers). (various references)

Japanese Kanji		喫煙者 , スマート爆弾 (slice, slide, slider, slider-memory, sliding, smack, smart bomb, smash, smear, smellovision, smile, smiley, Smithsonian Institution, smog, smoke, smoked cheese, smoked salmon, smooth, smoothing operation, variable autotransformer). (various references)

Japanese Katakana		きつえんしゃ (a smoking car), スモーカー . (various references)

Korean		흡연자. (various references)

Manx		toghtaneyr, jaagheyder (fumigator), carriads thombaacey. (various references)

Pig Latin		okersmay.(various references)

Portuguese		fumigador, fumante (nicotian), defumador. (various references)

Romanian		fumãtor (smoking), afumãtor (smoke house). (various references)

Russian		курильщик (nicotian). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		pušački, pušač (nicotian). (various references)

Spanish		fumador (chain smoker, puffer, smokers). (various references)

Swedish		rökare (smoking section). (various references)

Thai		คนสูบบุหรี่. (various references)

Turkish		sigara tiryakisi (chain smoker, smoke consumer), sigara içilen bölüm, sigara içen kimse. (various references)

Turkmen		зilimkeю. (various references)

Ukrainian		курець (whiffler), коптильник. (various references)

Vietnamese		người hút thuốc. (various references)

Welsh		smociwr, ysmygwr. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Derivations
	Words beginning with "smoker": smokers. (additional references)
	Words ending with "smoker": antismoker, nonsmoker. (additional references)
	Words containing "smoker": antismokers, nonsmokers. (additional references)
Misspellings
	"Smoker" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Mokyr, Slokar, smaker, smober, smok, smokey, smoue, Somafer. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

# of Phoneme Matches	Pronunciation	Word(s) rhyming with "smoker" (pronounced smō"ker)
5	s m ō" k er	nonsmoker.
3	-ō" k er	broker, croaker, joker, mediocre, ochre, poker, Stoker.
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "e-k-m-o-r-s"
	-1 letter: merks, mokes, mores, morse, omers, smerk, smoke.
	-2 letters: eros, kore, kors, merk, moke, more, mors, mosk, okes, omer, ores, rems, roes, roms, rose, soke, some, sore.
	-3 letters: ems, ers, kor, kos, mor, mos, oes, oke, oms, ore, ors, ose, rem, res, roe, rom, ser, som.
	-4 letters: em, er, es, me, mo, oe, om, or.
	Words containing the letters "e-k-m-o-r-s"
	+1 letter: irksome, mockers, smokers, smokier.
	+2 letters: comakers, darksome, larksome, meshwork, monikers.
	+3 letters: clerkdoms, foremilks, homeworks, irksomely, kaiserdom, karyosome, keratomas, makeovers, meshworks, misreckon, mockeries, monickers, monkeries, nonsmoker, oddsmaker, overmilks, oversmoke, semiworks, shoemaker, snowmaker, teamworks, timeworks, workmates.
	+4 letters: antismoker, automakers, biomarkers, bookmakers, checkrooms, dockmaster, frameworks, hackamores, homemakers, kaiserdoms, karyosomes, kilometers, markswomen, masterwork, metalworks, ministroke, misreckons, motorbikes, noisemaker, nonsmokers, oddsmakers, oversmoked, oversmokes, postmarked, shoemakers, snowmakers, toolmakers.
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Expression	Frequency per Day	Expression	Frequency per Day
smoker	1,974	stovetop smoker	75
barbecue smoker	1,289	pit smoker	70
smoker grill	595	food smoker	65
brinkman smoker	326	smoker and picture	63
meat smoker	260	smoker cooking	62
smoker recipe	250	barbecue pit smoker	62
smoker xp	208	gas smoker	61
new braunfels smoker	208	smoker cough	59
electric smoker	189	smoker outpost	58
brinkmann smoker	142	homemade smoker	56
sexy smoker	120	stove top smoker	54
smoker lung	101	barbecue plan smoker	53
celebrity smoker	99	female celebrity smoker	52
charcoal smoker	92	little chief smoker	52
bradley smoker	86	guide smoker	52
wood smoker	86	weber smoker	51
smoker right	82	plan smoker	50
smoker lung picture	81	water smoker	50
smoker barbecue grill	79	commercial smoker	46
build smoker	78	fish smoker	43
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.


"Smoker on the shore" by Roland Peschetz Commentary: "A man lighting a cigarette, sitting on a rock on the coast of Connemara, Ireland."	"The smoker" by Markus . Commentary: "After the evening."
Source: photographs selected by the editor, with permission from the photographers.

Smoker

Definition: Smoker

Smoker

Noun

Specialty Definition: Smoker

Specialty Definition: Smoking

Tobacco smoking

Synonyms: Smoker

Synonyms within Context: Smoker

Sociality

The Drama

Crosswords: Smoker

Modern Usage: Smoker

Screenplays

Movie/TV Titles

Commercial Usage: Smoker

Books

Music

Consumer Goods

Image Slideshow: Smoker

Photos:Smoker

Illustrations:Smoker

Computer Images:Smoker

Photo Album: Smoker

Digital Photo Gallery: Smoker

Familiar Quotations: Smoker

George Eliot

Non-Fiction Usage: Smoker

Lexicography

Devil's Dictionary

Spoken Usage: Smoker

Ann Richards

Usage Frequency: Smoker

Name Usage Frequency: Smoker

Expressions: Smoker

Frequency of Internet Keywords: Smoker

Modern Translation: Smoker

Albanian

Arabic

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Indonesian

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Japanese Kanji

Japanese Katakana

Korean

Manx

Pig Latin

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Romanian

Russian

Serbo-Croatian

Spanish

Swedish

Thai

Turkish

Turkmen

Ukrainian

Vietnamese

Welsh

Derivations & Misspellings: Smoker

Derivations

Misspellings

Rhyming with "Smoker"

Anagrams: Smoker

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

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