Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. A small roll of finely cut tobacco for smoking, enclosed in a wrapper of thin paper.
- n. A similar roll of another substance, such as a tobacco substitute or marijuana.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. 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.
Wiktionary
- n. Tobacco, marijuana, or other substances, in a thin roll wrapped with paper, intended to be smoked.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. A little cigar; a little fine tobacco rolled in paper for smoking.
WordNet 3.0
- n. finely ground tobacco wrapped in paper; for smoking
Etymologies
- French, diminutive of cigare, cigar, from Spanish cigarro; see cigar.
Examples
“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*”
“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 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
“For some reason, he began thinking of his Columbia days and chuckled to himself when he remembered what they call a cigarette in England.”
“Last week Reynolds American and Altria Group reported declines in cigarette sales.”
“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.”
“The cost of the program is funded by an increase in cigarette taxes of 62 cents per pack.”
“Still, humans are inadvertently carpeting the planet in cigarette butts.”
“A source that can highlight why the toxins in cigarette smoke are so uniquely hazardous that they somehow manage to define the truism that, you know, the actual dose of the toxin in question is important”
“A source that can highlight why the toxins in cigarette smoke are so uniquely hazardous that they somehow manage to define the truism that, you know, the actual dose of the toxin in question is important.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘cigarette’.
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UK Usage - Find US Equivalent
All these terms have a (different) American English equivalent. Wonder if you can identify them?
abridgement (abri..., accoutrement, accoutre, acknowledgement (..., opposite, advert, adaptor, adapter, sticking plaster, advertise, adviser (advisor ..., adze, aesthete and 1196 more...
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Eesily missspellable words
absence, abundance, accessible, accidentally, acclaim, accommodate, accomplish, accordion, accumulate, achievement, acquaintance, across and 420 more...
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Loanwords
Since English is littered with loanwords, everything could conceivably end up here. But there is a distinct feeling associated with these.. maybe they're young additions to the English language; I ...
iceberg, fjord, firth, abbey, abyss, anorak, apartheid, assassin, avalanche, avocado, balaclava, banana and 104 more...
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Chit Chat
Conversations that are shorter than those featured in my conversations list.
props, frass, narwhal, preggers, mu, hype, heterotopia, sans serif, cow orker, snicker-snack, modality road, boolean poetry and 77 more...
bilby "Cigarettes are killers that travel in packs."
- Mary Ott. Sep 9, 2008
npydyuan Ha! Yeah, always a toss-up between those two. Oct 11, 2007
john 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 :-) Oct 11, 2007
npydyuan 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. Oct 11, 2007
reesetee Ooooh! Do we get awards?? Trophies? Something shiny? *gazing adoringly at oroboros* Sep 15, 2007
oroboros 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*... Sep 15, 2007
reesetee *cough* You guys are all right. :-) Sep 15, 2007
npydyuan If then that sin stick dwelleth in my maw, I am sick with smoke which sticketh in my craw.... Sep 15, 2007
uselessness "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) Sep 15, 2007
npydyuan ...matter of fact, I think I'll have one now.... Sep 15, 2007