table lighter

noun

A lighter for cigarettes, etc., often ornately decorated, designed to be kept or placed on a table.

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Meanings

nountable lighter (plural table lighters)

plural table lighters

  1. A lighter for cigarettes, etc., often ornately decorated, designed to be kept or placed on a table.

    Smoke rose high - cigarette and golden table-lighters brought round by undeferential white-coated flunkeys - but there was nothing to drink except orange crush - officially.

    1958, Anthony Burgess, The Enemy in the Blanket (The Malayan Trilogy), published 1972, page 292
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APA

table lighter. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/table%20lighter

MLA

“table lighter.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/table%20lighter. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “table lighter,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/table%20lighter.

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