Smoker is a noun derived from
smoke
Smoke is a suspension of airborne particulates and gases emitted when a material undergoes combustion or pyrolysis, together with the quantity of air that is entrained or otherwise mixed into the mass. It is commonly an unwanted by-product ...
and may have the following specialized meanings:
* Someone who
smokes tobacco or cannabis, cigarette substitutes, or various other drugs
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Smoking (cooking)
Smoking is the process of flavoring, browning, cooking, or preserving food by exposing it to smoke from burning or smoldering material, most often wood. Meat, fish, and ''lapsang souchong'' tea are often smoked.
In Europe, alder is the tradi ...
, smoker, an apparatus for smoking (cooking technique)
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Bee smoker
A bee smoker (usually called simply a smoker or a smokepot) is a device used in beekeeping to calm honey bees. It is designed to generate smoke from the smoldering of various fuels, hence the name. It is commonly designed as a stainless steel cylin ...
, a tool used in beekeeping
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Räuchermann
The ''Räuchermann'' (diminutive ''Räuchermännchen''), erzgebirgisch ''Raachermannel'' is an incense smoker, the invention of toy makers in the Ore Mountains, used to burn down cone incense, known as '' Räucherkerzchen''.
The ''Räuchermann' ...
, a German figurine used for burning incense
* A
stag film
A stag film (also blue movie or smoker) is a type of pornographic film produced secretly in the first two-thirds of the 20th century. Typically, stag films had certain traits. They were brief in duration (about 12 minutes at most), were silent, d ...
People
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Smoker (surname)
Fictional characters
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Smoker (One Piece), a character from the manga and anime ''One Piece''
* A smoker, or copper-burner, one of the types of
allomancer
''Mistborn'' is a series of epic fantasy novels written by American author Brandon Sanderson and published by Tor Books. The first trilogy, published between 2006 and 2008, consists of ''The Final Empire'', ''The Well of Ascension'', and ''Th ...
in Brandon Sanderson's fantasy ''Mistborn'' series
* Smoker, a special infected in the 2008 game ''
Left 4 Dead
''Left 4 Dead'' is a 2008 first-person shooter game developed by Valve South and published by Valve. It was originally released for Microsoft Windows and Xbox 360 in November 2008 and for Mac OS X in October 2010, and is the first title in the ...
''
* The antagonists in the 1995 film ''
Waterworld
''Waterworld'' is a 1995 American post-apocalyptic action film directed by Kevin Reynolds and co-written by Peter Rader and David Twohy. It was based on Rader's original 1986 screenplay and stars Kevin Costner, who also produced it with Charl ...
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Other uses
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''Smokers'' (Footlights), performances by Cambridge University Footlights Dramatic Club, typically late-night shows presenting a collection of sketches and comedy songs
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Smoking concert
Smoking concerts were live performances, usually of music, before an audience of men only, popular during the Victorian era. These social occasions were instrumental in introducing new musical forms to the public. At these functions men would s ...
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''The Smokers'' (film), a 2000 film directed and written by Kat Slater
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''The Smokers'' (painting), a 1630s painting by Adriaen Brouwer
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Black smoker
A hydrothermal vent is a fissure on the seabed from which geothermally heated water discharges. They are commonly found near volcanically active places, areas where tectonic plates are moving apart at mid-ocean ridges, ocean basins, and hotspot ...
, a type of hydrothermal vent
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White smoker
A hydrothermal vent is a fissure vent, fissure on the seabed from which Geothermal gradient, geothermally heated water discharges. They are commonly found near volcano, volcanically active places, areas where tectonic plates are moving apart at m ...
, a type of hydrothermal vent
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Smoker parrot
The regent parrot or rock pebbler (''Polytelis anthopeplus'') is a bird found in southern Australia. It has predominantly yellow plumage with a green tail. The bird is found primarily in eucalyptus groves and other wooded areas of subtropical s ...
, colloquial name for the regent parrot
* "The Smoker," a short story by
David Schickler
David Schickler (born July 30, 1969, in Rochester, New York) is an American screenwriter and author, most recently of the memoir ''The Dark Path'', published by Riverhead Books in September 2013. He is the co-creator and an executive producer of ...
* Smoker or smoking car, a car on a passenger train, in which smoking is permitted, just as a sleeper or
sleeping car
The sleeping car or sleeper (often ) is a railway passenger car (rail), passenger car that can accommodate all passengers in beds of one kind or another, for the purpose of sleeping. George Pullman was the American innovator of the sleeper car.
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is where passengers can sleep
* In baseball, another term for
fastball
The fastball is the most common type of pitch thrown by pitchers in baseball and softball. "Power pitchers," such as former American major leaguers Nolan Ryan and Roger Clemens, rely on speed to prevent the ball from being hit, and have thro ...
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See also
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Chain smoker
Chain smoking is the practice of smoking several cigarettes in succession, sometimes using the ember of a finished cigarette to light the next. The term chain smoker often also refers to a person who smokes relatively constantly, though not ne ...
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Smoking (disambiguation)
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