Another way to say “tobacco”

Chiefly British slang for a hand-rolled cigarette. Rolling your own tobacco is a long-standing tradition in the UK, both for cost savings and personal preference, and the term rollie (sometimes spelled rolly) is the affectionate shorthand smokers use for the result. You'll hear it in pubs, on street corners, and in any conversation where someone asks if they can cadge a smoke.

To flash the ash means to offer someone a cigarette from your pack — sharing your smokes with a mate or passing one along when asked. The phrase is a piece of British slang with a satisfying rhyme to it, and it carries the casual generosity of cigarette culture where sharing a smoke was a social ritual. The 'ash' refers to the ash end of a lit cigarette, and 'flash' suggests a quick, casual offer. It's dated but charmingly evocative of a very specific era of British pub and street life.

Niki-niki is Australian slang for chewing tobacco — the stuff you tuck into your cheek rather than light up. The term has an informal, bush-vernacular energy that fits neatly into the broader tradition of colourful Australian slang for vices. While chewing tobacco isn't as mainstream as it once was, niki-niki survives as a regional curiosity with a pleasantly rhythmic sound to it.

An informal, slightly old-fashioned British and Antipodean clipping of tobacco, typically referring to loose-leaf rolling tobacco rather than manufactured cigarettes. Common among people who roll their own. Carries a working-class or bohemian connotation depending on context. More regional than universal now, but still heard in casual conversation and seen in British fiction. The term is most commonly heard among older smokers in rural or working-class contexts, though it remains recognizable to a broad British audience.

(slang) A half-smoked cigarette.

(AAVE, slang) A cigarette.

(slang) A cigarette.

(slang) Tobacco.

(especially, Southern US, West Indies) A common ground dove ().

(South Africa) Newport brand menthol cigarette.

(UK, humorous, dated) The furnace in which contraband tobacco is burned after being seized by the state, or the chimney from which the resulting smoke rises.

(transitive, slang, rare) To give someone a cigarette, or to light one for them.

The butt of a cigarette.