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I was looking for a colloquial way to call a cigarette in English, and the only one that I found was "ciggie".

Can you think of a different one?

Or is the "ciggie" what native speakers would actually use?

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    – tchrist ♦
    Commented Oct 22, 2016 at 4:59
  • Do you want terms used by smokers, or would terms used by non-smokers also work? I think existing answers cover the obvious choices for the former, but there are also a bunch of the latter, at least in the US where smoking is now widely condemned. (Widely enough that I think even some smokers sometimes use the more derogatory terms.)
    – 1006a
    Commented Oct 23, 2016 at 14:38

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How about smoke?

Can you spare a smoke?

Got any smokes?

M-W:

smoke: a cigarette, cigar, etc. : something that people smoke

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  • In my experience, 'tab' is the most common. "You gotta tab mate?", "Gizza tab", "I need a tab".
    – grateful
    Commented Oct 21, 2016 at 19:48
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    @grateful Interesting. Where do you live? I live in the States, have smoked for years, and have never heard that term.
    – Richard Kayser
    Commented Oct 21, 2016 at 20:14
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    @grateful: In colloquial parlance about drugs, tab in AmE used to mean a bit of LSD (tab of acid), but otherwise it means nothing, that I'm aware of, wrt other drugs.
    – Drew
    Commented Oct 21, 2016 at 20:37
  • @Drew That I've heard.
    – Richard Kayser
    Commented Oct 21, 2016 at 21:10
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Smoking (or hacking) a dart is a term I have heard in recent years in this area (Ontario, Canada).

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@RichardKayser is correct for an unused cigarette. Butt is commonly used for a used one, similar to the British dog end.

"A small part of a cigarette that is left after smoking".

TFD

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When I was young "fag" was the slang term in the US, at least in the schoolyards I frequented. I would guess that the term dropped from common use (to mean "cigarette") about 30 years ago, however, as the term took on the (derogatory) meaning of "homosexual".

(I'm recalling that both senses of the word are related to "faggot", which is a bundle of sticks, though I've never fully understood why that word is associated with homosexuality.)

(If one were writing a book set in the US in the 50s, "fag" would be the word to use. But it would be unsuited for more recent contexts.)

In terms of current vernacular, "butt", "smoke", and "cig" are probably the best one can do for US terms, unless we can get a smoking teenager in here to update us on the slang.

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Including "ciggie," I've heard:

-Square

-Drag

-Dart (Canadian)

-Fag (British)

-Bean

-Round

I'm a non-smoker.

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