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Camel, e.g
Answer for the clue "Camel, e.g ", 9 letters:
cigarette
Alternative clues for the word cigarette
Word definitions for cigarette in dictionaries
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
A cigarette is a small cylinder of finely cut tobacco leaves rolled in thin paper for smoking . The cigarette is ignited at one end causing the cigarette to smoulder and allowing smoke to be inhaled from the other end, which is held in or to the mouth; ...
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Cigarette \Cig`a*rette"\, n. [F. cigarette.] A little cigar; a little fine tobacco rolled in paper for smoking. [Also spelled cigaret .] Syn: cigarette, fag, weed.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1835, American English, from French cigarette (by 1824), diminutive of cigare "cigar" (18c.), from Spanish cigarro (see cigar ). Spanish form cigarito , cigarita also was popular in English mid-19c. Cigarette heart "heart disease caused by smoking" is attested ...
Usage examples of cigarette.
Ross absently pulled the cigarette from his mouth and looked at it, brow knotted in concentration.
If he smoked too many cigarettes and drank too much absinth it was because he took civilization as he found it, and did the things that he found his civilized brothers doing.
The cigarette tastes good and it burns my throat and my lungs and though it is the lowest and weakest drug that I am addicted to, it is still a drug and it feels fucking good.
This is the reason why nicotine patches are not addictive while cigarettes, which contain the same quantity of nicotine, are.
Antryg said softly, and a shiver went through him, although the bar, with its close-packed bodies, its smells of cigarettes and beer and synthetic aldehyde, was warm as a Jacuzzi.
The sidewalk was filled with anorectic individuals of ambiguous gender, hugging guitar cases as if they were life preservers, dragging deeply on cigarettes and regarding the passing traffic with spaced-out apprehension.
Antique mirrors, gold-lettered with advertisements for cigarettes and aperitifs, were fixed to every wall.
He offered Aragon a cigarette from his case as Louise walked on ahead.
As she sized me up, her eyes narrowing, the cigarette hung aslant from her mouth.
But the longest stretches were nothing more lethal than prostitutes charging three cigarettes or two atabrine tablets.
Ralph Bales let the word float through the room like a puff of cigarette smoke.
Jennings sat down on his own chair, snuffed his cigarette out in an ashtray, and immediately lit another, studying Becker all the while.
Dolan rolled his cigarette to one corner of his mouth and took out a leather bifold wallet with his badge, which he held up.
Bingo, brought the opener from the kitchen, handed Bingo his cigarettes, and then disappeared into the improvised darkroom.
He rolled the cigarettes on to the instrument binnacle, then resumed his discussion with the young women.