Loosies are generally bought by cigarette addicts who have trouble affording a whole pack at the taxed rate.
I had bought the device at Rite-Aid precisely because it resembled a cigarette.
For every cigarette, there is a lollipop, and for every act of violence or despair, there is a moment of sheer comic absurdity.
America has never seen an ad like this either—spot the cigarette!
When I arrived, around 5:00 pm, the room was thick with cigarette smoke and country rock music blared over the speakers.
"That was very sensible of you," she declared knocking the ash from her cigarette.
She did not glance at him, but held her cigarette in silence and refused to light it.
Collins smoked a cigarette to quiet his nerves, after which he got into bed once more.
He broke away from her with a gay laugh, and lit a cigarette.
Miss Dilldall publicly boasted of the fact that she had smoked a cigarette in a restaurant in Soho!
1835, American English, from French cigarette (by 1824), diminutive of cigare "cigar" (18c.), from Spanish cigarro (see cigar). Spanish form cigarito, cigarita also was popular in English mid-19c. Cigarette heart "heart disease caused by smoking" is attested from 1884. Cigarette lighter attested from 1884.
noun phrase
An open-cockpit inboard power boat used for offshore racing, and to some extent for transporting contraband: the look on Bush's face as he pushes up the throttle on his cigarette boat: demonic/ a speedboat, one of those cigarettes like the black one out there
[1970s+; fr their elongated shape]
