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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Jazz Tangcay, Variety, 28 Sep. 2025
In the father-daughter opening scene, Willa rebukes her loving, but paranoid stoner father for his lifestyle.
—Bryan Alexander, USA Today, 27 Sep. 2025
The film, about a group of revolutionaries who reunite to help one of their own — Bob Ferguson, a washed-up, paranoid stoner — rescue his daughter from their longtime enemy, has a lot to say about our fraught, divisive reality.
—Lauren Huff, Entertainment Weekly, 27 Sep. 2025
Names and backstories are different, but in Pynchon’s text, stoner pianist Zoyd Wheeler is taking odd jobs and government disability checks obtained by staging regular psychotic episodes, when federal agent Brock Vond drives him and his 14-year-old daughter Prairie from their home.
—Rory Doherty, Time, 26 Sep. 2025
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Noun
In the Paul Thomas Anderson film, out this weekend, DiCaprio plays Bob, a revolutionary turned stoner dad who is hanging around his house and has to quickly leave to go in search of his teenage daughter Willa, played by Chase Infiniti.
—Jazz Tangcay, Variety, 28 Sep. 2025
In the father-daughter opening scene, Willa rebukes her loving, but paranoid stoner father for his lifestyle.
—Bryan Alexander, USA Today, 27 Sep. 2025
The film, about a group of revolutionaries who reunite to help one of their own — Bob Ferguson, a washed-up, paranoid stoner — rescue his daughter from their longtime enemy, has a lot to say about our fraught, divisive reality.
—Lauren Huff, Entertainment Weekly, 27 Sep. 2025
Names and backstories are different, but in Pynchon’s text, stoner pianist Zoyd Wheeler is taking odd jobs and government disability checks obtained by staging regular psychotic episodes, when federal agent Brock Vond drives him and his 14-year-old daughter Prairie from their home.
—Rory Doherty, Time, 26 Sep. 2025
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“Stoner.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/stoner. Accessed 8 Oct. 2025.
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