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Definition of "smoking-room" [smoking-room]

  • Marked by indecency; obscene: smoking-room humor. (adjective)

American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

Use "smoking-room" in a sentence
  • "On my return I paid fivepence for a "cabin," took my receipt for the same in the form of a huge brass check, and went upstairs to the smoking-room."
  • ""He's sure the real thing," he told one of his fellow-clubmen afterwards, in the smoking-room of the Alta-Pacific."
  • "The walls of this room will be covered with books, and it can serve as library and smoking-room as well."