toker
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[edit]Etymology
[edit]Noun
[edit]toker (plural tokers)
- One who tokes, especially marijuana.
- 1973, “The Joker”, performed by Steve Miller Band:
- I'm a joker, I'm a smoker / I'm a midnight toker
- 2020 October 1, Damien Cave, “Jacinda Ardern Admits Past Cannabis Use. New Zealanders Shrug: ‘Us, Too.’”, in The New York Times[1]:
- Before leading the coronavirus lockdown that worked and becoming New Zealand’s unifier-in-chief after the deadly shootings last year at two mosques in Christchurch, Ms. Ardern was, it seemed, like most of her constituents: a toker, at least once or twice.
- 2022 April 18, Catherine Porter, “A ‘Wild West’ of Marijuana Shops Grows in Toronto”, in The New York Times[2]:
- You could take a few steps down the sidewalk and enter Friendly Stranger, which trades on nostalgia for tokers who picked up their first bong here, long before cannabis was legalized three and a half years ago.