Smokey

See also: smokey

English

Etymology

Short for Smokey Bear.

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, 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, 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, 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, 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, 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:

        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?