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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Craig Jenkins, Vulture, 25 July 2025
Penn’s happy stoner surfer dude Jeff Spicoli immediately became the movie’s poster boy and comedy focal point.
—Martha Ross, Mercury News, 25 July 2025
Master of Reality was released in July 1971 and is widely regarded as providing the foundation of stoner rock and sludge metal.
—Roy Trakin, HollywoodReporter, 22 July 2025
Jon Hurwitz, Hayden Schlossberg and Josh Heald, the creators behind worldwide Netflix sensation Cobra Kai, have closed a deal to write a new installment of Harold & Kumar, the buddy stoner comedy movie series that was popular in the early 2000s.
—Borys Kit, HollywoodReporter, 17 June 2025
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Noun
The band’s macabre theatricality pricks up in the advancing madness of shows from hard-rock staples like Alice Cooper throughout the ’70s and the plummeting tempos that would inform stoner rock and sludge metal later on.
—Craig Jenkins, Vulture, 25 July 2025
Penn’s happy stoner surfer dude Jeff Spicoli immediately became the movie’s poster boy and comedy focal point.
—Martha Ross, Mercury News, 25 July 2025
Master of Reality was released in July 1971 and is widely regarded as providing the foundation of stoner rock and sludge metal.
—Roy Trakin, HollywoodReporter, 22 July 2025
Jon Hurwitz, Hayden Schlossberg and Josh Heald, the creators behind worldwide Netflix sensation Cobra Kai, have closed a deal to write a new installment of Harold & Kumar, the buddy stoner comedy movie series that was popular in the early 2000s.
—Borys Kit, HollywoodReporter, 17 June 2025
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“Stoner.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/stoner. Accessed 22 Aug. 2025.
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