See Also: smoker(dictionary)
non-smoker(dictionary)
smoker(dictionary)
black smoker(medicine)
smoker's patches(medicine)
smoker's tongue(medicine)
pipe-smoker's cancer(medicine)

illuminating (oh) and smoker (iou)


illuminating (oh)



making things much clearer and easier to understand
::a very illuminating book

smoker (iou)



smoker noun. L16.
[from SMOKE verb + -ER1.]
A person who cures Food by means of smoke. L16.
A person who habitually smokes tobacco etc. E17.
passive smoker: see PASSIVE adjective.
M. C. Gerald The..greater incidence of lung cancer among cigarette smokers. A. N. Wilson He was a heavy smokersixty cigarettes a day.
A thing which emits smoke; spec. (a) a vessel used to conceal hostile operations by discharging volumes of smoke; (b) a smoky chimney, locomotive, etc.; (c) a device for stupefying bees; (d) colloq. a motor vehicle or engine that emits excessive exhaust fumes. L17.
b. Oceanography. A hydrothermal vent from which water and mineral particles issue; a cylindrical or Other structure formed by mineral deposition around such a vent. L20.
a. (A section of) a railway carriage in which smoking is permitted. L19.
b. A concert, cabaret, or Other Entertainment (orig. spec. at which smoking was permitted). L19.
c. An informal social gathering of men. Chiefly US. L19.
Comb.: smoker's cough a severe cough caused by smoking; smoker's heart, smoker's throat a diseased condition of the heart or throat caused by smoking.