Definition of "Smokey"

Alternative form of Smokey Bear  quotations  examples

Alternative form of Smokey Bear

1. Highway patrolman.  quotations  examples

   Quotations

   • Unless Smokeys were engaged in an active pursuit, they had to stick to highways and pass off suspicious vehicles to local units.

     1997, Tony Chiu, Positive Match, page 384

   • Mack trucks would replace quarter horses, Smokeys would replace federal marshals, and truckstops would replace saloons as the loci of spontaneous brawls.

     2008, Shane Hamilton, Trucking Country: The Road to America's Wal-Mart Economy, page 221

   • 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.

     2014, Jim Ore, Crime is Everywhere, page 243

2. A campaign hat.  quotations  examples

   Quotations

   • 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?

     2007, Larry Smith, The Few and the Proud: Marine Corps Drill Instructors in Their Own Words