cancerette

plural cancerettes

1. derogatoryslangA cigarette.

   'Have some Widows' Mourners, my silent friend. Or a Cancerette.'

   1959, Peter Vansittart, Orders of Chivalry, page 13

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   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

   The man in the white-lab coat, Dr. Charles Detrick, stubs his half-smoked cancerette in the smaller of the two sinks

   1966, George William Target, The Scientists, A Novel, page 98

   Synonyms: cancer stick, cig, ciggy, coffin nail, fag, smoke