a short tightly rolled cylinder of tobacco, wrapped in thin paper and often having a filter tip, for smoking
Shortened forms: cig, ciggie, ciggy
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cig•a•rette or cig•a•ret/ˌsɪgəˈrɛt/USA pronunciation
n. [countable]
WordReference Random House Unabridged Dictionary of American English © 2026- a narrow, short roll of finely cut tobacco wrapped in thin paper.
cig•a•rette
(sig′ə ret′, sig′ə ret′),USA pronunciation n.
- a cylindrical roll of finely cut tobacco cured for smoking, considerably smaller than most cigars and usually wrapped in thin white paper.
- French, equivalent. to cigare cigar + -ette -ette
- 1820–30
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- blow
- break
- bronchitis
- bumper
- burn
- butt
- cancer stick
- chain-smoke
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- cigarette beetle
- cigarette card
- cigarette end
- cigarette girl
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- cigarillo
- ciggy
- coffin nail
- dead
- disposable
- dog-end
- doobie
- drag
- durry
- fag
- fag end
- ferrocerium
- field-strip
- filter
- filter tip
- fire
- flint
- gasper
- grind
- grub
- jay
- joint
- king-size
- kretek
- last
- light
- light up
- lighter fluid
- low-tar
- machine