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smokey bear en · NOUN

Meanings

  1. (alt-of, alternative) Alternative form of Smokey Bear (“highway patrolman”).
    • To protect themselves from the lurking police cruisers ("smokey bears"), truckers ("18-wheelers") purchased CB units in large numbers. 1977, M. Wayne DeLozier, Consumer behavior dynamics: a casebook, page 251:
    • Just a mention of the man's name conjures up visions of 18 wheelers, diesel smoke belching from stacks, smokey bears, CB radio and its almost unintelligible jargon and the endless ribbon of interstate highways that seemingly go on forever. 1982, The Road Way, page 46:
    • Well, we gotta get to Big Bear Mountain before those smokey bears close off the entrance to the mountains. 2014, Jeffrey Otersen, Little Truckers, →ISBN, page 72:

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