smokey
See also: Smokey
English
Pronunciation
- Rhymes: -əʊki
Adjective
smokey
- 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."
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Etymology 2
Short for Smokey Bear (“a cartoon Park Ranger”).
Noun
smokey (plural smokies or smokeys)
- (US) A state trooper.
- 1975, C.W. McCall and Chip Davis (lyrics), “Convoy”, in Black Bear Road, performed by C. W. McCall:
- By the time we got into Tulsa Town
We had eighty-five trucks in all
But there's a roadblock up on the cloverleaf
And them bears was wall-to-wall.
Yeah, them smokies is thick as bugs on a bumper
They even had a bear in the air.
- 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:
- 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.
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