coffin nail
a cigarette.
Origin of coffin nail
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How to use coffin nail in a sentence
The second day I was there I lighted a coffin-nail before one of the older officers.
Uncle Sam's Boys as Lieutenants | H. Irving HancockWhy, thankee, I've been aching for just a good old coffin-nail.
The Varmint | Owen JohnsonOne nail drives out another, it's true; but the worst nail you can employ is a coffin-nail.
Jack Sheppard, Vol. I (of III) | W. Harrison AinsworthI might have been inclined, myself, to regard a coffin-nail as the deadest piece of ironmongery in the trade.
A Christmas Carol | Charles DickensLater, I had a ring made of the coffin-nail, and I still wear it on the fore-finger of my right hand.
Told by the Death's Head | Mr Jkai
British Dictionary definitions for coffin nail
a slang term for cigarette
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