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Smokey
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smokey
English
Etymology
Short for en Smokey Bear.
Proper noun
Smokeys
en Smokey Bear.
en 1995 Teddy bears: a guide to their history, collecting, and care Sue Pearson; Dottie Ayers 111 0028604172 The plush bear on the near left was produced by Three Bears Inc. around 1985 and is typical of the plush Smokeys produced in the United States.
en 1998 Film and TV Animal Star Collectibles Dana Cain 55 0930625986 Ideal released several more plush Smokeys, but the company's most ingenious move was to include application cards allowing kids to become a "Junior Forest Ranger."
Noun
en Smokey Bear.
Highway patrolman.
en 1997 Positive Match Tony Chiu 384 0553102834 Unless Smokeys were engaged in an active pursuit, they had to stick to highways and pass off suspicious vehicles to local units.
en 2008 Trucking Country: The Road to America's Wal-Mart Economy Shane Hamilton 221 1400828791 Mack trucks would replace quarter horses, Smokeys would replace federal marshals, and truckstops would replace saloons as the loci of spontaneous brawls.
en 2014 Crime is Everywhere Jim Ore 243 0992645867 Sky-eye had been concentrating on S.O.B. flying over them into space and would have missed the forty odd Smokeys heading south towards the crest from the north and forty three Smokeys heading north from the south towards them but the explosion blew it round and it was very close and level with the road as Smokey after Smokey shot into the air over the crest, crashed head on into a neighbouring county's car and both fell back to earth as scrap.
A campaign hat.
en 2007 The Few and the Proud: Marine Corps Drill Instructors in Their Own Words Larry Smith 0393329925 She was with the engineers but she wanted to be a drill instructor, and she asked me one day, she said, 'How come you all don't wear the Smokeys?
en Headwear