cig n.
a cigarette, a cigar.
 | broadside ballad n.p.: Dancing the jig, / Every fellow with a cig [i.e. cigar], / And a cig of confounded bad tobacco [B&L]. | |
![[US]](/static/img/flags/us.png "United States") | Iola Register (KS) 21 Aug. 3/1: ‘Sa-a-ay, mister, got ’ny cigs?’ ‘Any what?’ ‘Cigs. Cigarettes. Dis’s me last’. | |
![[UK]](/static/img/flags/uk.png "United Kingdom") | Minor Dialogues 232: You shall come into the Stewards’ room afterwards, and have as many cigs. as you like. | |
| Kipling Captains Courageous cap.1: 🌐 Pif! My cig’s out. [...] Any gen’elman got a real Turkish cig on him? | |
![[Aus]](/static/img/flags/aus.png "Australia") | Bulletin (Sydney) 16 Aug. 12/3: ‘I’ll swop yer a ticket for the newsboys’ picnic for two packets of cigs.’. | |
| Marvel 12 Nov. 5: Thinks ‘e’s goin’ to wear diamond scarfpins and smoke cigs all day – the juggins! | |
| Bar-20 iii: I jest come fer another cig; got any left? | |
| Day Book (Chicago) 24 Feb. 14: Should One Hold ‘Cig’ in One’s Lips or in One’s Fingers to Give a Lady a Light? | |
| ‘Hello, Soldier!’ in ‘Hello, Soldier!’ 87: Cantin’ up me bloomin’ cady, toyin’ with a cig. | |
| Little Caesar (1932) 192: Can’t you do me a favour and get me a pack of cigs. | |
| ‘A Nose for News’ in Goulart (1967) 210: Get me some cigs, please? | |
| Mass-Observation Report on Juvenile Drinking 8: ‘I’ve never been in a pub for beer, only to buy cigs. for my dad.’ (Boy, 12, Fulham). | |
| letter 21 Apr. in Leader (2000) 277: Have you got a cig., Kingsley? | |
| Hoodlums (2021) 57: ‘I get gum, then cigars, then pipe tobacco. [...] Then more cigs, different brand’. | |
| letter 26 May in Proud Highway (1997) 338: One dime a bottle, cigs 8 cents. | |
| Inside the Und. 41: He glanced at his watch [...] and stubbed his cig. | |
| Traveller’s Tool 21: Only a lezzo would knock back the chance of a swig, a cig and a jig with an Australian Elder Statesman. | |
| Bad Debts (2012) [ebook] The girls with one pretty summer before the baies and the cigs and the mid-moprning start on the wine cask. | |
| ‘God's Chillin’ Oz ser. 1 ep. 3 [TV script] He comes to me and he asks me for a cig. | |
| Curvy Lovebox 147: He sparks a cig an’ lets it burn in his mouth. | |
| Teen Lingo: The Source for Youth Ministry 🌐 fiendin needing, like an urge. ‘I’m fiendin fer some cigs right now.’. | |
![[Scot]](/static/img/flags/sco.png "Scotland") | Gutted 42: Hod took the cig off me, stubbed it. ‘You don’t need any more aggro’. | |
| Kimberly’s Capital Punishment (2023) 395: If we weren’t low on cigs [etc]. | |
| ‘Brass’ in ThugLit Feb. [ebook] ‘Let’s go outside and have a cig’. | |
| Tales of the Honey Badger [ebook] That’s as good as being the bloke with the cigs in the prison yard. |