cigarette

UK/ˈsɪɡəɹɛt/US/ˈsɪɡəɹɛt/

nounA2Very common — you will meet it every day · #1,185 of 15,258leans spoken

Other forms: cigarettes

A cigarette is a thin paper tube of tobacco that people smoke. Lit at one end, and gone in five minutes.

It is the single deadliest consumer product ever made, which is why packaging, advertising and public smoking are now controlled almost everywhere. The word came from French and means a little cigar. British English shortens it to fag, which means something quite different in America and is a real trap. Roll-ups are made by hand, and the word cigarette originally described exactly those.

Definitions of cigarette

1nouncigaretteA thin roll of tobacco in paper, for smoking.A2
“He stepped outside for a cigarette.”

Also accepted in games: cig

Where it comes from

French
cigarette
English, today
cigarette

Borrowed from French cigarette. French cigarette, from cigare, from Spanish cigarro + diminutive suffix -ette. by surface analysis, cigar + -ette.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA

Practised in A Man Called Ove

First appears in chapter 11 of A Man Called Ove.

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cigarette in the wild

A cigarette is a thin cylinder of smoking tobacco rolled in thin paper for smoking.
Cigarette
A cigarette is distinguished from a cigar by its usually smaller size, use of processed leaf, different smoking method, and paper wrapping, which is typically white.
Cigarette
The smoke may be inhaled, as is done with cigarettes, or released from the mouth, as is done with pipes and cigars.
Tobacco smoking
Most recently Camel cigarettes contain a blend of Turkish tobacco and Virginia tobacco.
Camel (cigarette)
Today, Marlboro continues to be one of the largest brands of cigarettes.
Marlboro

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