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smoker

7 7.0

A train car where people may use tobacco

noun
/ˈsmoʊkər/

Archaic

: vagón para fumadores

smoker grill
smoker box
stovetop smoker

Examples

I'll be there as soon as you get a smokers section.

Diary of a Mad Black Woman (2005)
Into the 1960s, American theaters included loge sections to accommodate smokers and seduce them back into the theater.

Academic text (2016)
Passengers can relax and enjoy their conversations in the smoker car during the long train journey.
The old train had a dedicated smoker section where passengers could light up without any restrictions.
Many travelers prefer to sit in the smoker compartment to enjoy a cigarette while enjoying the scenery.

Synonyms

smoking carriage

vssmoker

Archaic

7.7

A train car where people are allowed to smoke

is the general term for such a permitted area on a train

smoking car

vssmoker

Archaic

6.0

A train car where people may light cigarettes

means the same but is a different form of the name

smoking compartment

vssmoker

Archaic

5.3

A section of a train for people who want to light cigarettes

also includes whole vehicles, not only smaller reserved sections

Compounds

chain-smoker

3 3.5

A person who lights many cigarettes one after another

cigarette smoker

2 2.3

A person who regularly lights and inhales cigarettes

cigar smoker

1 3.0

A person who often uses cigars to relax

pipe smoker

1 3.4

A person who smokes tobacco from a pipe

pole-smoker

Slur

9.9

An insulting word for a gay man or someone seen as very sexual

smoker fuel

Specialized

6.7

Natural material burned in a bee smoker to make smoke that calms bees

Surface Forms

smoker singular

smokers plural

Morphology

smoker = smoke (semi-transparent) = smoke + er

The link to smoking is clear, but using '-er' to mean a railway compartment for smokers is a specialized extension rather than a fully predictable derivation.

Etymology

Smoker for a train car was named because it was the part of the train where people could smoke; the name is simply smoke + -er, meaning 'for those who smoke'. So a smoker car was the train car 'for smokers'.