Meanings
plural cigarette girls
- historicalA woman employed to sell cigarettes, sometimes cigars, and other related items.
Once in a while, with greater frequency as the night stumbles on, one of the inspectors makes a clumsy grab for one of the cigarette girls, who are as a group blonde and young and endowed by the Creator with exceptional breasts or legs, but never both.
1999, Colson Whitehead, The Intuitionist, Fleet (2017), page 148Synonyms: candy girl
Synonyms & antonyms
nounA woman employed to sell cigarettes, sometimes cigars, and other related items.
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cigarette girl. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 5, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/cigarette%20girl
“cigarette girl.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/cigarette%20girl. Accessed November 5, 2026.
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