cancerette
nounEtymology Blend of cancer + cigarette. First use appears c. 1953 in the The Country Gentleman.
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Derogatory, Slang A cigarette.
- Moreover, so far as I know, only one public authority has started an official campaign to draw the attention of the population to the danger of death from what the Americans call the cancerette.1958, National Council of Labour Colleges (Great Britain), Plebs League (Great Britain) (contributors), The Plebs, Volumes 50-51, page 180:
- 'Have some Widows' Mourners, my silent friend. Or a Cancerette.'1959, Peter Vansittart, Orders of Chivalry, page 13:
1 more example
- The man in the white-lab coat, Dr. Charles Detrick, stubs his half-smoked cancerette in the smaller of the two sinks1966, George William Target, The Scientists, A Novel, page 98:
- Synonyms
- cancer stick, cig, ciggy, coffin nail, fag, smoke