What does cigarette mean in slang?

gasper (slang) ciggy (informal) coffin nail (slang) cancer stick (slang)
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What is cigarette slang for?

stinky stick (slang) stoge, stoag (US, slang) stogie, stoagie (US, slang) straight (slang)
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What are cigarettes slang for UK?

fag noun (CIGARETTE)

[ C ] UK slang. a cigarette: a packet of fags.
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What is slang for a single cigarette?

In the United States, a loosie (or loosey) is a single cigarette that is purchased or sold. The transaction is illegal and commonly found in low-income areas. The high cost of cigarettes due to increased taxation has been blamed for increased sales of loosies.
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What is Australian slang for cigarettes?

Durry, an Australian slang term for cigarette.
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What do Kiwis call cigarettes?

Durrie: Cigarette. “Hey bro, lend us a durrie!”
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Why is a cigarette called a Durrie?

Etymology 1

David Bradley, Australian Journal of Linguistics (1989) suggests that it may be derived from a widely used brand of loose tobacco used for roll-your-owns, Bull Durham, clipped and resuffixed with the most productive suffix for forming new colloquial words in Australian English.
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What is a cigarette called?

A cigarette is distinguished from a cigar by its usually smaller size, use of processed leaf, and paper wrapping, which is typically white. A cigarette may be called a fag in British slang. Many other terms are used for cigarettes, including cigs, ciggies, smokes, darts, stogs, boges, and tabs.
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What are some nicknames for cigarettes?

cigarette
  • smoke.
  • butt.
  • cubeb.
  • fag.
  • puff.
  • reefer.
  • biri.
  • gasper.
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What is the British slang for girl?

14. Bird. A word used to describe a woman.
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What does CIG Mom mean?

People are comparing their use of the filter to the look of “cigarette moms" or "trailer park chicks," terms that invoke negative stereotypes of mothers in the lower or middle class who smoke cigarettes, and have been notoriously painted as incompetent mothers.
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Is cigarette a drug?

Cigarette smoke contains more than 4,000 chemicals, including toxins like ammonia. But the chief culprit in cigarettes is nicotine, a powerfully addictive drug. With every puff of a cigarette, nicotine alters how your brain functions.
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Are cigarettes called squares?

Square has been slang for cigarettes since at least the 1960s. According to Green's Dictionary of Slang, square originates as prison slang for factory-made cigarettes, whether issued in prison or sold commercially.
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What is a servo slang?

A servo is a service or gas station, as in, a place where you fill up your car with petrol.
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Whats a durry in Australia?

/ (ˈdʌrɪ) / noun plural -ries. Australian slang a cigarette.
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Is durry a word?

DURRY is a valid scrabble word.
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What are in cigarettes?

The chemical constituents of cigarettes include:
  • Nicotine. Nicotine is a colourless, poisonous alkaloid derived from the tobacco plant. ...
  • Tar. 'Tar' is the term used to describe the toxic chemicals found in cigarettes. ...
  • Carbon monoxide. ...
  • Arsenic. ...
  • Ammonia. ...
  • Acetone. ...
  • Toluene. ...
  • Methylamine.
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Are e cigarettes banned in India?

India banned the use and sale of e-cigarettes roughly a year ago, citing concerns of a potential smoking epidemic in the younger population. This was a prudent decision in the context of the incidence and pattern of tobacco use in India.
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What do they call condoms in England?

Rubber. This is an informal way of saying condom on the US – so a rubber is a contraceptive. We just call them condoms in the UK.
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What do gangsters call their girlfriends?

The informal moll has most often been used for the romantic partners of 1920s and 30s mobsters, like Al Capone's wife Mae or George "Baby Face" Nelson's girlfriend Helen.
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How do Brits say drunk?

Pissed / Pished

However it is probably the most commonly used word in the UK to describe being drunk.
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What does K lied mean?

/ (ˈkeɪliːd) / adjective. British slang intoxicated; drunk.
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What do British call beer?

We use pint to mean a beer in a pub.
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