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
Synonyms
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
Recent Examples on the Web
Inkoo Kang, The New Yorker, 18 Mar. 2024
This verse nearly counts as a breaking news alert, for country-pop’s once-proudest superstar stoner.
—Chris Willman, Variety, 14 Mar. 2024
The years of prohibition produced all genres of stoner music from the 1960s through the 2000s.
—Andrew Deangelo, Forbes, 30 Mar. 2024
Yet Garrett the stoner pops up, and so does Fred Durst, playing himself.
—Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 10 Mar. 2024
Back in 1995, audiences watching the stoner comedy Friday had no idea just how important this movie would end up being.
—EW.com, 13 Sep. 2023
Marin’s weird and hilarious flavor of stoner slapstick comedy alongside Tommy Chong has forever imprinted the Cheech and Chong names into the history books.
—Lindsey Bartlett, Forbes, 1 Mar. 2024
Several products advertised a truly terrifying potency: one bag of peach gummy rings from the California brand Smashed supposedly contained two hundred and fifty milligrams of THC per gummy, enough to send a devoted stoner like myself to the emergency room, if not to the grave.
—Jia Tolentino, The New Yorker, 19 Feb. 2024
Milam began to hang out and record with rap’s stoner icons: Wiz Khalifa, Snoop Dogg, Curren$y, B-Real from Cypress Hill.
—Ezra Marcus, New York Times, 30 Jan. 2024
Noun
The next day, the stoner, Saul Durand (Jovan Adepo), chalks the experience up to an elaborate hoax; the rest of the world also saw the stars twinkle in code, but the celestial blinks went undetected by Earth’s most powerful telescopes.
—Inkoo Kang, The New Yorker, 18 Mar. 2024
This verse nearly counts as a breaking news alert, for country-pop’s once-proudest superstar stoner.
—Chris Willman, Variety, 14 Mar. 2024
The years of prohibition produced all genres of stoner music from the 1960s through the 2000s.
—Andrew Deangelo, Forbes, 30 Mar. 2024
Yet Garrett the stoner pops up, and so does Fred Durst, playing himself.
—Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 10 Mar. 2024
Back in 1995, audiences watching the stoner comedy Friday had no idea just how important this movie would end up being.
—EW.com, 13 Sep. 2023
Marin’s weird and hilarious flavor of stoner slapstick comedy alongside Tommy Chong has forever imprinted the Cheech and Chong names into the history books.
—Lindsey Bartlett, Forbes, 1 Mar. 2024
Several products advertised a truly terrifying potency: one bag of peach gummy rings from the California brand Smashed supposedly contained two hundred and fifty milligrams of THC per gummy, enough to send a devoted stoner like myself to the emergency room, if not to the grave.
—Jia Tolentino, The New Yorker, 19 Feb. 2024
Milam began to hang out and record with rap’s stoner icons: Wiz Khalifa, Snoop Dogg, Curren$y, B-Real from Cypress Hill.
—Ezra Marcus, New York Times, 30 Jan. 2024
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“Stoner.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/stoner. Accessed 24 Apr. 2024.
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