coffin nail

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nounSlang.
  1. a cigarette.

Origin of coffin nail

1
First recorded in 1885–90

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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.

  • Why, thankee, I've been aching for just a good old coffin-nail.

    The Varmint | Owen Johnson
  • One 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 Ainsworth
  • I might have been inclined, myself, to regard a coffin-nail as the deadest piece of ironmongery in the trade.

    A Christmas Carol | Charles Dickens
  • Later, I had a ring made of the coffin-nail, and I still wear it on the fore-finger of my right hand.

British Dictionary definitions for coffin nail

coffin nail

noun
  1. a slang term for cigarette

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