duck n.7
(US) a cigarette or cigar end; thus shoot ducks, to relight a cigar or cigarette end.
![[US]](/static/img/flags/us.png "United States") | ‘Word-List From East Alabama’ in DN III:iv 308: duck, n. A cigarette stub. | |
![[UK]](/static/img/flags/uk.png "United Kingdom") | Living Rough 175: Where’s that doup (cigarette butt) I left on the mantlepiece. | |
| ‘Citadel Gloss.’ in AS XIV:1 Feb. 26/2: duck, n. A partially consumed cigarette. | |
| ‘The Language of the Tennessee Mountain Regions’ in AS XIV:2 90: ducks. A lighted cigarette stub. | |
| , | | DAS. |
In compounds
(US) one who, bereft of a cigarette himself, is given the last few puffs on a friend’s.
 | Alabama’s Own 303: Brownie and me are ‘Duck Buddies,’ have been from the first. Don’t know what a ‘Duck Buddie’ is? Well, you see, if a man has some ‘makin’s’ and his buddie hasn’t, the buddie always gets the ‘ducks’ – the last half inch or so of the cigarette, I mean [HDAS]. |