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cigarette

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[sig-uh-ret, sig-uh-ret]

noun

  1. a cylindrical roll of finely cut tobacco cured for smoking, considerably smaller than most cigars and usually wrapped in thin white paper.



cigarette

/ ˌɪɡəˈɛ /

noun

  1. Shortened forms: cig. ciggy.a short tightly rolled cylinder of tobacco, wrapped in thin paper and often having a filter tip, for smoking

“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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Other 51Թ Forms

  • anticigarette adjective
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51Թ History and Origins

Origin of cigarette1

1820–30; < French, equivalent to cigare cigar + -ette -ette
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51Թ History and Origins

Origin of cigarette1

C19: from French, literally: a little cigar
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Williams would look into the camera, mime taking a drag from a cigarette, throw her head back and say, “I have lived!”

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He was smoking four packs of cigarettes a day.

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“Does someone have a cigarette?” he asked out loud in Spanish.

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I had friends in the school, but those friends would soon turn on you if there was an extra five cigarettes a day and the teachers said 'Go and sort them out.'

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A friend of Tiger's from Stilfontein, who only wants to be identified as Ayanda, tells me they used to share food and cigarettes before supplies dwindled.

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