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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Tribune Content Agency, Mercury News, 15 Apr. 2025
The latest is Bunny, a freewheeling ensemble comedy set in an East Village tenement inhabited by hustlers, stoners, party girls, landlords, Wall Street bros and not one but two dead bodies.
—Jordan Mintzer, The Hollywood Reporter, 12 Mar. 2025
His innocent questions were always softened by stoner jokes.
—Peter Bart, Deadline, 10 Apr. 2025
By comparison, these two men and their early brand of sweet-but-raunchy stoner comedy had managed to evolve and survive the vicissitudes of time, taste and social attitude, even as not every joke — nor every career among their cohort — survived with them.
—Austin Considine, New York Times, 26 Mar. 2025
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Noun
By Anthony Washington, The Fresh Toast Marijuana has become mainstream and the stoner stereotype is fading – except for one tiny group…
With Gen Z, Boomers, AARP, the FDA and more embracing cannabis, the average consumer is truly mainstream.
—Tribune Content Agency, Mercury News, 15 Apr. 2025
The latest is Bunny, a freewheeling ensemble comedy set in an East Village tenement inhabited by hustlers, stoners, party girls, landlords, Wall Street bros and not one but two dead bodies.
—Jordan Mintzer, The Hollywood Reporter, 12 Mar. 2025
His innocent questions were always softened by stoner jokes.
—Peter Bart, Deadline, 10 Apr. 2025
By comparison, these two men and their early brand of sweet-but-raunchy stoner comedy had managed to evolve and survive the vicissitudes of time, taste and social attitude, even as not every joke — nor every career among their cohort — survived with them.
—Austin Considine, New York Times, 26 Mar. 2025
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“Stoner.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/stoner. Accessed 4 May. 2025.
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