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Discover LudwigSentence The word 'ciggy' is an informal, colloquial term for a cigarette.
As such, it is not considered correct in formal written English. However, if used in informal writing, such as in a blog post or in a text message, it may be appropriate. Example sentence: "I think I'll take a quick ciggy break before I start my next task."
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ciggy
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(slang) A cigarette.
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Foreign brands are relegated to a niche market in China but the ciggy bigwigs now have their eyes on global expansion.
But Bertie Carvel in particular caught Clegg's complex and tortured credo down to a T. I was on a plane with Mr Nick just before that election, shared a ciggy with him in the sunshine, shared some Big Thoughts, and he's 17 times the man some of you love to so cheaply deride, and this fine drama caught much of that subtlety.
At home she has a ciggy with my mother in the kitchen and she's great at impressions – she does a brilliant Aretha Franklin when she's had a few drinks and gets on the table.
When I was nine, my father gave me a brief, concise lecture on politics: "If you ever come home and tell me you voted Tory," he said, lying on the driveway, dragging on a ciggy as he dropped the clutch out of the car, "you'll be sailing out of the front door with my bootprint on your arse.
Not a dry eye in the house as Shatner splits into three (oh yes) and gets jiggy with a ciggy.
The argument of the censorious forces in the above cases is that the shocking ciggy pics might encourage those seeing them to light up at home or outside the office door; could, in the terrible official lingo, "normalise" the activity.
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"When I finish a cigarette I think about death," said Damien Hirst, coming right to the point, which is what you wish Sarah Lucas would do in her ciggy-themed solo show.
But the irrepressible Mr Farage is going to carry on enlivening British politics regardless, unless the ciggies get him, or the booze.
The current owner stipulates no booze, drugs or ciggies according to the website airbnb.co.uk.
Boozing, ciggies, cream cakes and nocturnal carousing do not feature much in any bid to live to 87 in tip-top shape.
A better resolution, of course, would be to stub the ciggies out altogether – and we know this now thanks to years of scientific research about the impact of tobacco on the health of both mother and child.
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