Smoot (disambiguation)
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A smoot is a jocular unit of measurement equal to 5 feet, 7 inches.
Smoot or Smoots may also refer to:
Places
- Smoots, Virginia, US
- Smoot, West Virginia, US
- Smoot, Wyoming, US
- Smoots Creek, a river in Kansas
People
- Abraham O. Smoot (1815–1895), mayor of Salt Lake City, Utah, US
- Dan Smoot (1913–2003), FBI agent and conservative political activist
- Fred Smoot (born 1979), American football player
- George Smoot (born 1945), astrophysics scientist at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and Nobel prize laureate in Physics, 2006
- Julianna Smoot, political fundraiser for the Democratic Party
- L. Douglas Smoot (born 1934), American chemical engineer
- Oliver R. Smoot (born 1940), former head of ISO and ANSI, for whom the unit was named
- Reed Smoot (1862–1941), Senator from Utah, sponsor of the Smoot-Hawley Tariff and son of Abraham O. Smoot
- Reed Smoot (cinematographer), a United States cinematographer
Characters
- Smoot, half of Canadian horror clown duo Mump and Smoot
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