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yenems; yenams; yenhams noun free cigarettes; anything belonging to someone else UK, 1984 Adopted from Yiddish, possibly as early as the mid-1920s.- Simmy was a cigar lover, although he never handed them around. Once I asked him what he thought the best cigar was. “There’s no doubt,” said Simmy. “The best cigars are Yenems.” This was a brand of which I had not heard. However, Simmy was a veteran smoker, so I rushed down to Suzman’s and asked the chap behind the counter for a box of Yenems. He fell about laughing. On recovering, he asked, stifling his chuckles: “You want Yenems?” I replied in the affirmative. "Yenems," he said, holding his side — Sunday Times (South Africa), Business Times, 3 August 2003
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