cigarette n.
(US black) the penis.
🎵Won’t you just draw my cigarette, smoke it the whole night long, / Just draw my cigarette, until you makes my good ashes come. | ‘Cigarette Blues’
used attrib. to imply second-rate or physically small
In compounds
(US) a small amount of money (enough to buy a pack of cigarettes).
We Called It Music 251: Jazz [...] has its virtuosi. Where are they? They are playing in saloons and cellar [...] for board and room and cigarette money.’. |
(drugs) a (small) packet of heroin.
AS XI:2 120/1: cigarette paper. A bindle of heroin. | ‘Argot of the Und. Narcotic Addict’ Pt 1 in||
Criminal Sl. (rev. edn). | ||
Narcotics Lingo and Lore. | ||
ONDCP Street Terms 6: Cigarette paper — Packet of heroin. |
(US black) a second-rate pimp, esp. a pimp who solicits for his women.
Black Players 33: Black pimps never solicit for their women if they are ‘true pimps’ and call a man who does a cigarette pimp, popcorn pimp or chile pimp. |
(Aus.) a very thin pack or swag, implying poverty.
Townsville Daily Bulletin 20 June 38/5: Everything I possessed jumped across the bar, and with a thin cigarette swag I waltzed out. | ||
Townsville Daily Bulletin 21 May 14/4: There was the different names for the swags [...] There was the cigarette swag (train jumpers use them in Queensland). | ||
Morn. Bulletin (Rockhampton, Qld) 25 June 12/3: A bagman with a cigarette swag (50 per cent hessian). | ||
Destined to Perish 33: Jack had brought a somewhat diminutive swag, a cigarette swag, as I was told later [AND]. | ||
Bulletin (Sydney) 2 Jan. 12/2: A kid of about 16 drifted to their fire. He had a cigarette swag and was pretty shy. | ||
Sun. Times (Perth) 28 Nov. 18/4: The other pugs were lucky if they had cigarette swags [...] maybe a single blanket, a pair of socks and one disreputable towel. | ||
Content to Lie in the Sun 63: My worldly possessions were rolled in a ‘cigarette swag’. | ||
Mighty Men on Horseback 15: I noticed a bloke drifting along from the homestead way leading a cigarette swag. | ||
‘Baking at Night’ in Spring Forest n.p.: After his long tramp across One-Tree-Plain with a ‘cigarette swag’ / Jim Long (Old Quizzer) dossed for some weeks / [...] under the bridge at Darlington Point. | ||
🎵 There’s a storm blowing off the mountain / It’s not a welcome site / From a cigarette swag on a two dog night / I’m so tired of this droving the dirt and dust and heat. | ‘Long Night’