stoner
Americannoun
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stoners
plural
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Slang. a person who is habitually high on drugs, especially marijuana, or alcohol; a person who is usually stoned.
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a person who pelts or assails with stones.
stoners of Paul the Apostle.
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Chiefly British. a person or thing that weighs a specified number of stone (used in combination).
a 12-stoner.
noun
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a device for removing stones from fruit
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slang a person who is habitually under the influence of drugs or alcohol
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Etymology
Origin of stoner
First recorded in 1300–50; stone ( def. ) + -er 1 ( def. )
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John Turturro has appeared in some classic L.A. movies during his 40-plus-year career, from the showbiz fever dream “Barton Fink” to the shaggy stoner noir “The Big Lebowski.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 21, 2026
If “The Big Lebowski” was a Raymond Chandler riff with a Los Angeles stoner for a protagonist, “Drive-Away Dolls” is their version of the 1955 noir “Kiss Me Deadly.”
From Seattle Times ● Feb. 20, 2024
And then America’s stoner uncle, Snoop, tweeted from his own account that he was Cozimo de Medici, a claim that may or may not be true.
From The Verge ● Feb. 10, 2022
Soundgarden and Alice In Chains were inspired by '70s psychedelic stoner rock and heavy metal bands such as Deep Purple and Black Sabbath.
From Salon ● Sep. 4, 2021
The stoner is usually built in direct combination with the cooling equipment, and does its work by means of a gravity separation in an upward-moving column of air.
From All About Coffee by William H. (William Harrison) Ukers
Our heroes are outcasts and nerds, navigating a world of jocks, stoners and cool kids.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 27, 2022
But, as local historian Joe Nick Patoski said, one thing united hippies and rednecks, cowboys and stoners, slackers and geeks: music.
From Washington Post ● Mar. 16, 2020
In one sketch, they play 18th-century stoners recounting how awesome Mozart was on his 1763 tour, gushing like heavy-metal fans after an AC/DC concert.
From New York Times ● Jul. 15, 2016
The fruit stoners, being the adventures of Maria among the fruit stoners. © 24Apr35; A81568.
From U.S. Copyright Renewals, 1963 January - June by Library of Congress. Copyright Office
Fire flames on my tongue; and though of old the Bactrian prophets were stoned, yet the stoners in oblivion sleep.
From Mardi: and A Voyage Thither, Vol. II by Herman Melville
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