smoke eater

[smohk-ee-ter]

smoke-eat·er

[smohk-ee-ter]
noun Slang.
a firefighter.

Origin:
1925–30
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Smoke eater is always a great word to know.
So is flibbertigibbet. Does it mean:
a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question.
a chattering or flighty, light-headed person.
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smoke eater definition


  1. n.
    a firefighter. : A couple of off-duty smoke eaters wandered around the store doing a little shopping.
Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions by Richard A. Spears.Fourth Edition.
Copyright 2007. Published by McGraw Hill.
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