Definition of "cigarette" Tobacco or other substances , in a thin roll wrapped with paper , intended to be smoked . quotations examples
Quotations No matter how early I came down , I would find him on the veranda , smoking cigarettes or otherwise his man would be there with a message to say that his master would shortly join me if I would kindly wait .
1897 December (indicated as 1898), Winston Churchill, chapter IV, in The Celebrity: An Episode, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company; London: Macmillan & Co., Ltd., page 46
Tobacconist : Right . I want to try you on a course of these : one twenty times a day . Have you taken them before ?Patient : Um , what is it?Tobacconist : It's a simple nicotinal arsenous monoxid preparation taken bronchially as an infumation .Patient : Infumation ?Tobacconist : Yes , you just light the end and breathe it.Patient : What , like cigarettes Tobacconist : You know them then . Actually , it's a bit hard to admit but they 're basically an herbal remedy ... A leaf originally from the Americas , I believe , called tobacco .Patient : But medicated ?Tobacconist : Medicated ? No .Patient : These are ordinary cigarettes Tobacconist : That 's right .Patient : But they 're terribly bad for you , aren 't they ?Tobacconist : I hardly think I would be prescribing them if they were bad for you .Patient : Twenty a day ?Tobacconist : Yes , ideally moving on to about thirty or forty .
1989 January 27, Stephen Fry et al., “Doctor Tobacco”, in A Bit of Fry and Laurie, Season 1, Episode 3
verb third-person singular simple present cigarettes , present participle cigaretting , simple past and past participle cigaretted