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coffin nail
noun
a cigarette US, 1900
From the link between smoking cigarettes and death. In the C19, it referred to “a cigar.”- — Lou Shelly, Hepcats Jive Talk Dictionary, p. 23, 1945
- “Say, got a fag?” asked Buddy. “Here’s a coffin nail,” Phil said, talking out of the side of his mouth and extending a pack to Buddy. — James T. Farrell, Saturday Night, p. 28, 1947
- And that’s what the so-called Surgeon General has going for him–a black hat: cigarettes. Coffin nails, gaspers–a black hat if ever there was one. — Max Shulman, Anyone Got a Match?, p. 42, 1964
- It’s why I didn’t take a drink or smoke a coffin nail or lay a broad until I was nineteen. — Iceberg Slim (Robert Beck), Doom Fox, p. 199, 1978
- If I had just turned twenty-two, I wouldn’t be suckin’ on these ol’ coffin nails myself, but I ain’t got a thing to lose, not at my age. — Odie Hawkins, The Busting Out of an Ordinary Man, p. 143, 1985
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