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
Examples of stoner in a Sentence
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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Rebecca Aizin, PEOPLE, 3 Apr. 2026
The show stars Camila Morrone as Rachel Harkin, a moody stoner chick who falls for her golden retriever fiancé Nicky Cunningham (Adam DiMarco) despite their differences.
—Sam Reed, Glamour, 2 Apr. 2026
From their breakthrough comedy albums to their wildly successful movies, these two invented stoner comedy.
—K. Thor Jensen, PC Magazine, 1 Apr. 2026
Dark, eerie, and paranoid (for good reason), the eight-episode season shifts back and forth from the casual grimness of an unwelcoming reality to the shocking frights of a stoner’s worst nightmare (the latter of which is shrewdly motivated by Rachel regularly smoking pot).
—Ben Travers, IndieWire, 26 Mar. 2026
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Noun
Pizza Movie Smiley Face meets 22 Jump Street in this unapologetically goofy fever dream of a Gen Z stoner comedy.
—Rebecca Aizin, PEOPLE, 3 Apr. 2026
The show stars Camila Morrone as Rachel Harkin, a moody stoner chick who falls for her golden retriever fiancé Nicky Cunningham (Adam DiMarco) despite their differences.
—Sam Reed, Glamour, 2 Apr. 2026
From their breakthrough comedy albums to their wildly successful movies, these two invented stoner comedy.
—K. Thor Jensen, PC Magazine, 1 Apr. 2026
Dark, eerie, and paranoid (for good reason), the eight-episode season shifts back and forth from the casual grimness of an unwelcoming reality to the shocking frights of a stoner’s worst nightmare (the latter of which is shrewdly motivated by Rachel regularly smoking pot).
—Ben Travers, IndieWire, 26 Mar. 2026
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“Stoner.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/stoner. Accessed 6 Apr. 2026.
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