Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A small roll of finely cut tobacco for smoking, enclosed in a wrapper of thin paper.
- noun A similar roll of another substance, such as a tobacco substitute or marijuana.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A small cigar made of finely cut tobacco rolled up in an envelop of tobacco, corn-husk, or thin paper, generally rice-paper, so as to form a cylinder open at both ends.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A little cigar; a little fine tobacco rolled in paper for smoking.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun
Tobacco ,marijuana , or other substances, in a thin roll wrapped withpaper , intended to besmoked .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun finely ground tobacco wrapped in paper; for smoking
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
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Examples
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Mom - Jeremy, give your sister back her cigarette, she HAS been saveing it for three hours me - * snickers** grabs cigarette** laughs as I walk away*
distortedlie Diary Entry distortedlie 2004
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A cynic, my dear Arthur (_he opens case deliberately, puts cigarette in mouth, and extracts gold match-box from right-hand trouser_) is a man who (_strikes match_) knows the price of (_lights cigarette_) -- everything, and (_standing with match in one hand and cigarette in the other_) the value of --- pff (_blows out match_) of (_inhales deeply from cigarette and blows out a cloud of smoke_) -- nothing.
The Sunny Side 1919
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The plaintiff moved for summary judgment to preclude assertion of the Correia defense, arguing that the Correia defense should, as a matter of law, be unavailable because a cigarette is an inherently dangerous product that causes injury when used for its ordinary purpose.
Mass. Supreme Judicial Court Bars Big Tobacco Defense: Can't Blame the Smoker 2006
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For some reason, he began thinking of his Columbia days and chuckled to himself when he remembered what they call a cigarette in England.
Latest Articles 2009
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For some reason, he began thinking of his Columbia days and chuckled to himself when he remembered what they call a cigarette in England.
Latest Articles 2009
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The cost of the program is funded by an increase in cigarette taxes of 62 cents per pack.
Think Progress » Who Is Randy ‘Baby Killer’ Neugebauer? 2010
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Still, humans are inadvertently carpeting the planet in cigarette butts.
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Still, humans are inadvertently carpeting the planet in cigarette butts.
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Last week Reynolds American and Altria Group reported declines in cigarette sales.
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Anyway, an alert reader points out that a new, "fire-safe" type of cigarette is being foisted on the puffing public, by governmental mandate, and the new smokes are not going over well with the addicted consumers.
npydyuan commented on the word cigarette
...matter of fact, I think I'll have one now....
September 15, 2007
uselessness commented on the word cigarette
"For that which I do I allow not: for what I would, that do I not; but what I hate, that do I. If then I do that which I would not, I consent unto the law that it is good. Now then it is no more I that do it, but sin that dwelleth in me." (Romans 7:15-17)
September 15, 2007
npydyuan commented on the word cigarette
If then that sin stick dwelleth in my maw, I am sick with smoke which sticketh in my craw....
September 15, 2007
reesetee commented on the word cigarette
*cough* You guys are all right. :-)
September 15, 2007
oroboros commented on the word cigarette
I hereby and hereinafter nominate reesetee and uselessness as Wordie's epitomic, hilariousest standup (er, sit down--unless they stand up at the keyboard?) splendiferous and ridiculicious comics of the year, wait, month, no, week! Yas. I do. *lowers eyelids modestly in anticipation of r. and u.'s relieved and adoring gazes*...
September 15, 2007
reesetee commented on the word cigarette
Ooooh! Do we get awards?? Trophies? Something shiny? *gazing adoringly at oroboros*
September 16, 2007
npydyuan commented on the word cigarette
Is there a word for the words one utters, if one's conversation and urge are intertwined, during the process of lighting the cigarette? The muffled lip, the relaxed remove, the leaning easily to the left, or right, to facilitate digging in the pocket for the lighter.... It is an inbetween moment, a smoker’s favorite kind of moment.
October 11, 2007
john commented on the word cigarette
Mm, I don't know the word, but I know the moment. It's hard to say what I miss most, having given up smoking--the comforting ritual and cant of it, or, you know, the drugs :-)
October 11, 2007
npydyuan commented on the word cigarette
Ha! Yeah, always a toss-up between those two.
October 11, 2007
bilby commented on the word cigarette
"Cigarettes are killers that travel in packs."
- Mary Ott.
September 9, 2008