Harry Wragg n.
a cigarette.
Scarperer (1966) 81: ‘Have a drink and a cigar.’ [...] ‘If it’s all equal to you, I’d sooner have a Harry Wragg.’. | ||
🎵 Harry rag, Harry rag / Do anything just to get a Harry rag / And he curses himself for the life he’s led / And rolls himself a Harry rag and puts himself to bed. | ‘Harry Rag’||
Up the Frog 20: ’E offers me one of ’is Harry Wraggs, but I sees ’e ’as a Spanish Guitar on ’isself. | ||
Maledicta II:1+2 (Summer/Winter) 117: Literature provided [...] Harry Wragg = ‘fag’, after a once-famous jockey, but fag in the sense of cigarette, not US faggot. | ||
Cockney Dialect and Sl. 103: Harry Wrag ‘fag’. |