What is a cigarette called in Australia?

Durry is the common Australian term for a cigarette. Among the younger generation, it is often called “ciggies” or “darts”. Both ways, stay away from smoking!

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Why do Aussies call cigarettes durries?

David Bradley, Australian Journal of Linguistics (1989) suggests that it may be derived from a widely used brand of loose tobacco used for roll-your-owns, Bull Durham, clipped and resuffixed with the most productive suffix for forming new colloquial words in Australian English.

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What are names for a cigarette?

Street names for cigarettes

Ciggies, darts, durries, rollies, smokes, fags, butts, cancer sticks.

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What is the slang word for a single cigarette?

In the United States, a loosie (or loosey) is a single cigarette that is purchased or sold.

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What is a cigarette slang?

gasper (slang) ciggy (informal) coffin nail (slang) cancer stick (slang)

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What is cigarette smoke called?

Secondhand smoke (SHS) is smoke from burning tobacco products, like cigarettes, cigars, hookahs, or pipes.

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What is a cigarette girl called?

Another title for a cigarette girl is candy girl. Aside from serving cigarettes and other novelties, the attractive girls acted as eye candy and were often employed to flirt with male customers as well. Cigarette girls usually consented in the hopes of getting tips from wealthy businessmen.

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What is a packet of cigarettes called?

A pack or packet of cigarettes (also informally called fag packet in British slang; as in the idiom "back of a fag packet" or "fag-packet calculation") is a rectangular container, mostly of paperboard, which contains cigarettes.

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What is the British slang for cigarette?

Fag or FAG may refer to: FAG, a brand of the Schaeffler Group. Cigarette, in British and Australian slang. Fagging, in British public schools.

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What do Canadians call cigarettes?

A dart is a Canadian slang term for a cigarette.

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What is a smoke Aussie slang?

Macquarie Dictionary defines smoko as (1) a break in the work of the morning or of the afternoon, originally to allow time for workers to smoke tobacco; (2) food or drink consumed at that time.

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What is Aboriginal slang for cigarette?

a cigarette, a dhurrie: Hey mate can u spare a bulyu ? Contributor's comments: This is an Aboriginal word from northern and western South Australia, literally meaning "smoke", traditionally the smoke from a fire, but now used to refer to tobacco as in "gimme bulyu" "give me a cigarette".

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What is Australian slang for cigarette break?

Smoko = A break at work.

Traditionally used when having a cigarette break.

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What are the most popular cigarettes in Australia?

As of 2017, leading brands of smoking tobacco in Australia were Champion, Drum, White Ox, and JPS produced by Imperial Brands, and Winfield produced by British American Tobacco.

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What is the weakest cigarette?

Let's take a look.
  • West White. Tar 2 mg. Nicotine 0.2 mg. ...
  • Glamour Super Slims Amber. Tar 1 mg. Nicotine 0.2 mg. ...
  • Davidoff One, Davidoff one Slims. Tar 1 mg. ...
  • Virginia Slims Superslims. Tar 1 mg. ...
  • Winston Xsence white Mini. Imperial tobacco. ...
  • Pall Mall Super Slims Silver. Tar 1 mg. ...
  • Camel One. Tar 1 mg. ...
  • Marlboro Filter Plus One. Tar 1 mg.

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What is a rolled cigarette called?

Roll-your-own cigarettes, sometimes known as rollies, are made by the smoker from loose tobacco rolled into a cigarette with special rolling papers. A filter, either purchased or made from cardboard, may be attached to one end.

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What is a cheeky cigarette?

used to describe something that you eat, drink, or do, especially when this is done quickly, without planning, or when you should not really do it: We just went outside for a cheeky cigarette.

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What is a cigarette mom slang?

Cigarette mom is a subordinate of another urban slang smoking mom. According to the Urban Dictionary, a smoking mom defines a mom with a stressful job who has to smoke a few cigarettes to get her life back together.

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What is a cigarette drag slang?

If you take a drag on a cigarette or pipe that you are smoking, you take in air through it.

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What is a thick cigarette called?

Cigar: A tube of tobacco that is thicker than a cigarette, wrapped in tobacco leaf, lit, and smoked. Cigars include regular cigars, cigarillos, and little filtered cigars.

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What is the healthiest cigarette?

There is no safe smoking option — tobacco is always harmful. Light, low-tar and filtered cigarettes aren't any safer — people usually smoke them more deeply or smoke more of them. The only way to reduce harm is to quit smoking.

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What are the 3 types of smokes?

Smoked tobacco products include cigarettes, cigars, bidis, and kreteks. Some people also smoke loose tobacco in a pipe or hookah (water pipe).

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How do you ask to bum a cigarette?

Just walk up and say, with your best, humblest, nicest smile, the one that reads, Hey, I get that you actually pay for cigarettes and totally shoulder the burden of smoking in a way I refuse to, but I would like to partake in your vice without doing any such work, and say: Hey, excuse me, do you mind if I bum a smoke?

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