smoker

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   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 with these people? Give 'em free cigarettes. Let 'em smoke. Offer them a light!

2. 2
   noun

   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.

3. 3
   noun

   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 […]

4. 4
   noun

   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.

5. 5
   noun

   A tobacco pipe that produces smoke well when used.

   Cripps selected from his store a battered pipe that looked as if it had been dug up with a corpse, and smelt worse than it looked, which he handed tenderly to the curate, with an air of conferring on him a sacred trust. "It's a beautiful smoker," he assured the curate, but the curate had still a saving remnant of caution left him.

6. 6
   noun

   a passenger car for passengers who wish to smoke

7. 7
   noun

   a party for men only (or one considered suitable for men only)

8. 8
   noun

   a person who smokes tobacco

Etymology

From smoke + -er.