stoner
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The mainstream hard rockers and hair bands of the 1980s certainly wouldn’t exist without Osbourne, but neither would more niche offshoots, like stoner rock, thrash metal, death metal and doom metal.
From Salon ● Jul. 26, 2025
“The easy thing would have been to make him a stoner or a preposterous nerd or a hippie-like figure,” says Brooker, speaking over Zoom.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 8, 2025
If “The Big Lebowski” was a Raymond Chandler riff with a Los Angeles stoner for a protagonist, “Drive-Away Dolls” is their version of the 1955 noir “Kiss Me Deadly.”
From Seattle Times ● Feb. 20, 2024
Whether championing math, poetry, or just how to be a decent human being, the inspirational teacher is as familiar to movie audiences as the class stoner.
From New York Times ● Sep. 3, 2020
"And what took ye, Mister Supercargo, to try a fall with the fourteen stoner?"
From In Clive's Command A Story of the Fight for India by Herbert Strang
Our heroes are outcasts and nerds, navigating a world of jocks, stoners and cool kids.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 27, 2022
But, as local historian Joe Nick Patoski said, one thing united hippies and rednecks, cowboys and stoners, slackers and geeks: music.
From Washington Post ● Mar. 16, 2020
In one sketch, they play 18th-century stoners recounting how awesome Mozart was on his 1763 tour, gushing like heavy-metal fans after an AC/DC concert.
From New York Times ● Jul. 15, 2016
Fire flames on my tongue; and though of old the Bactrian prophets were stoned, yet the stoners in oblivion sleep.
From Mardi: and A Voyage Thither, Vol. II by Herman Melville
The fruit stoners, being the adventures of Maria among the fruit stoners. © 24Apr35; A81568.
From U.S. Copyright Renewals, 1963 January - June by Library of Congress. Copyright Office
