What is cigarette slang for?

bogie, boagie. cancerette (derogatory slang) cancer stick (slang) cig (informal)
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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 are cigarettes slang for UK?

fag noun (CIGARETTE)

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

Durry, an Australian slang term for cigarette.
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What are some nicknames for cigarettes?

cigarette
  • smoke.
  • butt.
  • cubeb.
  • fag.
  • puff.
  • reefer.
  • biri.
  • gasper.
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Fag: British Slang For a Cigarrette



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 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 dart slang?

noun. Cigarette. Last edited on Jun 16 2004.
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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 do they call cigarettes in Canada?

A dart is a Canadian slang term for a cigarette.
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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 is a Lucy?

noun. the incomplete skeletal remains of a female hominid found in eastern Ethiopia in 1974 and classified as Australopithecus afarensis.
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Is dart slang for cigarette?

Durries and darts: the quintessentially Aussie slang for cigarettes.
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What does your belly mean?

1a : abdomen sense 1 also : potbelly sense 1. b : the stomach and its adjuncts. c : the undersurface of an animal's body also : hide from this part. d : womb, uterus.
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Why is double called Madhouse?

The double-1. At least two explanations for the term have been proffered; because it can drive you crazy trying to hit one in a game of x01, or because it is impossible to "get out" of the mad house - once a player has a score of 2 the only way to finish the game is by hitting a double-1.
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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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What is a pack of Durries?

It's a cigarette. Also known as darts and durries. If you have a pack of cigarettes it's a deck of durries (or ciggies etc.), if you're having a smoke you're punching darts.
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What is the street name for cigarettes?

Street names for cigarettes

Ciggies, darts, durries, rollies, smokes, fags, butts, cancer sticks.
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What does knackered mean in England?

Definition of knackered

British. : tired, exhausted. Synonyms & Antonyms Don't Get Tired Defining Knackered Example Sentences Learn More About knackered.
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What does feeling dusty mean?

If something has been around for a really long time and it's worn-out, stale, or unoriginal, you can also call it dusty. If you're a stand up comedian whose been working the same act for thirty years, chances are your jokes are getting a little dusty. Definitions of dusty. adjective.
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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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What does square mean slang?

Square is slang for a person who is conventional and old-fashioned, similar to a Fuddy-duddy. This sense of the word "square" originated with the American jazz community in the 1940s, in reference to people out of touch with musical trends.
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