cigarette

cigarette
noun
ADJECTIVE
▪ lighted, lit, unlit
▪

He accidentally dropped a lighted cigarette on the chair.

▪ half-smoked
▪ illicit
▪

She slipped outside for an illicit cigarette.

▪ hand-rolled, low-tar, unfiltered
▪ clove (AmE), menthol
▪ marijuana
… OF CIGARETTES
▪ pack (esp. AmE), packet (BrE)
▪

She smokes a pack/packet of cigarettes a day.

▪ carton
▪ case
VERB + CIGARETTE
▪ smoke
▪ draw on, pull on, suck on
▪

He pulled on his cigarette and waited for the train.

▪ light
▪ extinguish, put out, stub out
▪

Please extinguish all cigarettes now.

▪ roll
▪

She rolls her own cigarettes.

▪ flick, flick away
▪

The old man flicked his cigarette onto the roadside.

▪ bum
▪

He'd bummed a cigarette from someone.

▪ advertise
▪

Posters advertising cigarettes have to carry government health warnings.

CIGARETTE + VERB
▪ burn
▪

The cigarette burned slowly in the ashtray.

▪ glow
▪

The cigarettes glowed in the dark.

▪ dangle, hang
▪

A cigarette dangled from his lips.

CIGARETTE + NOUN
▪ ash, smoke
▪

the smell of stale cigarette smoke

▪ butt, end (BrE)
▪ case, packet (BrE), pack (esp. AmE)
▪ holder, lighter
▪ smoker
▪ consumption, smoking, use
▪ burn
▪ ad, advertising
▪ company, maker, manufacturer
▪ break
▪

He was sitting on the bench taking a cigarette break.

▪ tax

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