A smoot is a jocular unit of measurement equal to 5 feet 7 inches (1.702 m). 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 Dawuane Smoot (born 1995), American football player 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 Midge Smoot, a fictional character from Shining Time Station Law Smoot–Hawley Tariff Act 1930 US protectionist trade legislation