What is Australian slang for cigarettes?

Durry, an Australian slang term for cigarette.
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What is a slang term for cigarettes?

gasper (slang) ciggy (informal) coffin nail (slang) cancer stick (slang)
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What do Kiwis call cigarettes?

Durrie: Cigarette. “Hey bro, lend us a durrie!”
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Whats a Durrie in Australia?

/ (ˈdʌrɪ) / noun plural -ries. Australian slang a cigarette.
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Is Dart slang for cigarette?

Durries and darts: the quintessentially Aussie slang for cigarettes.
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Why is a cigarette called a durry?

Durry was originally used for hand-rolled cigarette. It is thought to have come from the original brand of loose tobacco, "Bull Durham", the first rolled cigarette tobacco initially marketed in 1860 by James Green of Durham Station, North Carolina. Before this tobacco was either chewed or smoked in a pipe.
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Why are cigarettes called squares?

According to Green's Dictionary of Slang, square originates as prison slang for factory-made cigarettes, whether issued in prison or sold commercially. And why would cigarettes—which are not at all rectangular in shape—be dubbed squares? That's apparently due to the fact the paper used to roll them are square in shape.
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What is a Drury rug?

A dhurrie (also dhurri, durrie, durry or dari) is an Indian and Pakistani term for a handwoven rug or a thin flat carpet, an item of home furnishing.
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What is a Prozzie?

prozzie (plural prozzies) (slang) A prostitute.
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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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How do you say cigarette in British slang?

fag noun (CIGARETTE)
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What do British people call cigarettes?

FAG, a brand of the Schaeffler Group. Cigarette, in British slang. Fagging, in British public schools.
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What does Chur mean in Australia?

Chur is a kiwi slang word which can be used in many situations. Its widely consider to be a shortening of the word cheers. It can be used as a greeting, or as goodbye and to say thanks. It;s also used when something is cool, sweet or all good “Fish & Chips for dinner?…… Chur!”
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What are nicknames for tobacco?

Other nicknames for tobacco include: smokes, ciggies, fags, durrie, rollies.
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What is a Stoogie?

stoogieadjective. A naughty playful child, often does not want to listen to being reprimanded by an adult, very playful and careless. Not easy to reprimand a hyperactive child.
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What does prosti mean?

prosti (plural prostik) (slang) prostitute.
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What is the difference between a dhurrie and a kilim?

Both are beautiful flat woven rugs usually made of wool and because of their weave, completely reversible. Kilim rugs were traditionally boldly colored and had geometric patterns, while Dhurries were more pastel and tended toward more flowing stylized designs.
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What is a cotton dhurrie rug?

Dhurrie rugs are a flat woven on a loom generally from wool or cotton. They are sometimes confused with their distant cousin, the kilim rug with the main difference being that dhurrie rugs are usually made with lighter, more pastel colours.
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How are dhurries made?

A Dhurrie is a flat woven pile-less cotton or woolen area rug made in a variety of designs and colours. Â Dhurries are made manually by skilled artisans on a traditional horizontal loom or vertical loom. They are woven by interlacing the vertical threads- the warp with the horizontal threads – the weft.
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What is a circle slang?

a social group. He runs in some strange circles. See more words with the same meaning: a group.
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What does banging squares mean?

Youths have also been sharing Snapchat posts encouraging them to become mules with slang terms such as “banging” squares, meaning debit cards. Advertisement. But banks are getting more adept at spotting mules, with sophisticated software that can detect any transactions that are out of character for a customer.
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Why is square an insult?

The sense of square as a derogatory reference to someone conventional or old-fashioned dates to the jazz scene of the 1940s; the first known reference is from 1944. There it applied to someone who failed to appreciate the medium of jazz, or more broadly, someone whose tastes were out of date and out of touch.
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What is a dart in Australia?

The Australian Government's disaster assistance response teams (DART) are deployed to crises overseas to help save lives and return communities to normal. Their urban search and rescue expertise is invaluable following earthquakes, cyclones and other disasters.
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What is a dunny in Australia?

A toilet. The dunny was originally any outside toilet. In cities and towns the pan-type dunny was emptied by the dunny man, who came round regularly with his dunny cart. Dunny can now be used for any toilet. The word comes from British dialect dunnekin meaning an 'earth closet, (outside) privy' from dung + ken 'house'.
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