Green’s Dictionary of Slang

cherry-ripe n.³

a pipe.

1857		‘Ducange Anglicus’ Vulgar Tongue.
1864, 1867, 1870		Hotten Sl. Dict.
1880		D.W. Barrett Life and Work among Navvies 41: Now then, my china-plate, out with your cherry-ripe, off with your steam-packet, and set your bark and growl agoin’.
1890–1904		Farmer & Henley Sl. and Its Analogues.
1905		Duke Tritton’s Letter n.p.: I have tossed my Cherry Ripe into the Barney Maguire and I have given the Mud And Ooze right away.
1913		Sport (Adelaide) 24 May 12/1: They Say [...] That The mob have taken on the cherry ripes; they will soon be on the lug for tobacco.
1928		M.C. Sharpe Chicago May: Her Story in Hamilton (1952) 132: Cherry ripe – pipe.
1932		‘P.P.’ Rhy. Sl.
1953		J. Franklyn Cockney 294: He may ask for a match to light his cherry-ripe (pipe).
1967		‘Whisper All Aussie Dict.’ in Kings Cross Whisper (Sydney) xxxiii 4/3: cherry ripe: Smoking pipe.
1979		R. Barker Fletcher’s Book of Rhy. Sl. 25: I will take a ball of chalk into the town, and buy some tobacco for my cherry ripe.
1983		R. Aven-Bray Ridgey-Didge Oz Jack Lang 23: Cherry Ripe Pipe.
2002		Pete’s Aussie Sl. Home Page 🌐 cherry ripe: a smoking pipe.