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Smokey

Smokey

See also: smokey

English

Proper noun

Smokey ‎(plural Smokeys)

  1. Alternative form of Smokey Bear
    • 1995, Sue Pearson & ‎Dottie Ayers, Teddy bears: a guide to their history, collecting, and care, ISBN 0028604172, page 111:
      The plush bear on the near left was produced by Three Bears Inc. around 1985 and is typical of the plush Smokeys produced in the United States.
    • 1998, Dana Cain, Film and TV Animal Star Collectibles, ISBN 0930625986, page 55:
      Ideal released several more plush Smokeys, but the company's most ingenious move was to include application cards allowing kids to become a "Junior Forest Ranger."

Noun

Smokey ‎(plural Smokeys)

  1. Alternative form of Smokey Bear
    1. Highway patrolman.
      • 1997, Tony Chiu, Positive Match, ISBN 0553102834, page 384:
        Unless Smokeys were engaged in an active pursuit, they had to stick to highways and pass off suspicious vehicles to local units.
      • 2008, Shane Hamilton, Trucking Country: The Road to America's Wal-Mart Economy, ISBN 1400828791, page 221:
        Mack trucks would replace quarter horses, Smokeys would replace federal marshals, and truckstops would replace saloons as the loci of spontaneous brawls.
      • 2014, Jim Ore, Crime is Everywhere, ISBN 0992645867, page 243:
        Sky-eye had been concentrating on S.O.B. flying over them into space and would have missed the forty odd Smokeys heading south towards the crest from the north and forty three Smokeys heading north from the south towards them but the explosion blew it round and it was very close and level with the road as Smokey after Smokey shot into the air over the crest, crashed head on into a neighbouring county's car and both fell back to earth as scrap.
    2. A campaign hat.
      • 2007, Larry Smith, The Few and the Proud: Marine Corps Drill Instructors in Their Own Words, ISBN 0393329925:
        She was with the engineers but she wanted to be a drill instructor, and she asked me one day, she said, 'How come you all don't wear the Smokeys?

smokey

smokey

See also: Smokey

English

Adjective

smokey

  1. Alternative spelling of smoky
    • 1888, Henry Murger, Bohemians of the Latin Quarter:
      One day Rodolphe, who had been jugged for some slight choreographic extravagances, stumbled upon an uncle of his, one Monetti, a stove maker and smokey chimney doctor, and sargeant of the National Guard, whom he had not seen for an age.
    • 2005 June 10, Liz Armstrong, “Summertime, and the Pleasures Are Guilty”, in Chicago Reader:
      The kind who craves an "alternative to the smokey bar scene," says the studio's Web site, in the form of an "invigorating candlelight yoga class accompanied by great live music."

Noun

smokey ‎(plural smokies)

  1. (US) A state trooper.
    • 1977, Terry Cook, Vans and the Truckin' Life, page 27:
      The middle position, or "rocking chair," is so called because the drivers in the middle don't have to worry about watching for smokeys.
    • 2007, Ben W. Thompson, M'Naghten Rules, ISBN 1466959347:
      I was keeping an eye out for the smokeys who were no doubt hiding and waiting for unsuspecting tourists on the way in from Jacksonville.

Etymology

Short for Smokey Bear

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