plural stoners
: a person who habitually uses drugs or alcohol
plural stoners
: one that stones someone or something: such as
a
: one that pelts someone or something with stones especially with intent to kill
b
: a device for removing stones from stone fruit
a cherry stoner
Examples of stoner in a Sentence
Noun (1)
The movie's a comedy about a couple of stoners.
a comedy about aging stoners who are still trying to get their act together
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David Fear, Rolling Stone, 22 Jan. 2026
Listening can feel like stumbling through a landscape that is both brutal and stunning, comprising raga drone and haunted violin screeches as well as beautifully woozy stoner rock and idyllic birdsong, all colliding into unexpected forms.
—David Glickman, Pitchfork, 14 Jan. 2026
But Kelson has continued experimenting, finding a breakthrough that could lead to a potential cure when Samson becomes an unlikely stoner buddy.
—David Rooney, HollywoodReporter, 13 Jan. 2026
As Jay Jonah Atterbury, one of a handful of new characters on the fourth season of Industry, Kal Penn weaponizes and corrupts the stoner quirks viewers may recognize from his years playing Kumar Patel in the Harold & Kumar films.
—Roxana Hadadi, Vulture, 12 Jan. 2026
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Anderson enlisted him as well for Inherent Vice (2014), his adaptation of Thomas Pynchon’s hippie noir that earns a place in both the out-of-his-depth-detective-story and stoner-flick halls of fame.
—David Fear, Rolling Stone, 22 Jan. 2026
Listening can feel like stumbling through a landscape that is both brutal and stunning, comprising raga drone and haunted violin screeches as well as beautifully woozy stoner rock and idyllic birdsong, all colliding into unexpected forms.
—David Glickman, Pitchfork, 14 Jan. 2026
But Kelson has continued experimenting, finding a breakthrough that could lead to a potential cure when Samson becomes an unlikely stoner buddy.
—David Rooney, HollywoodReporter, 13 Jan. 2026
As Jay Jonah Atterbury, one of a handful of new characters on the fourth season of Industry, Kal Penn weaponizes and corrupts the stoner quirks viewers may recognize from his years playing Kumar Patel in the Harold & Kumar films.
—Roxana Hadadi, Vulture, 12 Jan. 2026
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“Stoner.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/stoner. Accessed 30 Jan. 2026.
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