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tailor-made; tailor; taylor
noun
a factory-made cigarette US, 1924- — Lou Shelly, Hepcats Jive Talk Dictionary, p. 19, 1945
- He picked up his Bull Durham sack from the dresser. He never smoked tailor-mades. — Willard Motley, Let No Man Write My Epitaph, p. 108, 1958
- Catching up either end of the cigarette paper, she rolled it into a slender cartridge, caught the ends with her tongue, licked the glued strip, and with deft movements of her fingers secured the tube – side, front, and back – crimping it expertly. “There!” she cried in a pleased little girl’s voice. “Almost as good as a tailormade, hey?” — Ross Russell, The Sound, p. 20, 1961
- He says he was sittin’ in a cell in a Southwest jail / where he landed doin’ three days for vag. / A drunk came in, his eyes lit up like a hungry pup / as I handed him a tailor-made fag. — Bruce Jackson, Get Your Ass in the Water and Swim Like Me, p. 82, 1966
- You let your tailormade hang cool between tight lips, unlit, and when you talk, your voice is soft and deep. — Piri Thomas, Down These Mean Streets, p. 59, 1967
- [N]o one could possibly prefere it to the tailor-mades and pipe tobacco sold on the inmate canteen at retail prices[.] — Malcolm Braly, On the Yard, pp. 46–47, 1967
- “What are these?” he yells at the top of his lungs after a con gave him five tailor mades. — Paul Glover, Words from the House of the Dead, 1974
- Why don’t you roll me five joints? I bet you roll ’em they’re like tailor-made. — Elmore Leonard, Glitz, p. 313, 1985
- — Angela Devlin, Prison Patter, p. 113, 1996
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