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
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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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David Fear, Rolling Stone, 5 Nov. 2024
There are far two few lady stoners on the silver or small screen.
—Brooke Staggs, The Mercury News, 15 Oct. 2024
The approach can be great fun in a stoner comedy but can also put distance between the characters and the audience.
—Sarah Shachat, IndieWire, 8 Oct. 2024
His co-stars, like Will Ferrell’s savage Mugatu, Owen Wilson’s stoner hottie Hansel, and Nathan Lee Graham’s servile Todd — all so precise and well-defined in the original’s ravelike milieu — are doomed to retrace their old steps here.
—Sean Malin, Vulture, 5 Sep. 2024
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Noun
His cousin, Benji, is a free-spirit stoner who reacts to everything like a child would, for better and for worse.
—David Fear, Rolling Stone, 5 Nov. 2024
There are far two few lady stoners on the silver or small screen.
—Brooke Staggs, The Mercury News, 15 Oct. 2024
The approach can be great fun in a stoner comedy but can also put distance between the characters and the audience.
—Sarah Shachat, IndieWire, 8 Oct. 2024
His co-stars, like Will Ferrell’s savage Mugatu, Owen Wilson’s stoner hottie Hansel, and Nathan Lee Graham’s servile Todd — all so precise and well-defined in the original’s ravelike milieu — are doomed to retrace their old steps here.
—Sean Malin, Vulture, 5 Sep. 2024
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“Stoner.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/stoner. Accessed 25 Nov. 2024.
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