(US) Tobacco, cut or ground finely, and placed between the cheek and the gum to allow nicotine absorption through the mucous membranes.
1847, editorial staff, Billions Cholic in "Scientific American", series 1, Volume 3, Issue 10, page 80
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(US, dated) Tobacco that is cut into strips or shreds, and chewed and then tucked between the cheek and the gum.
: "Take, say a fourth of a pound of chewing tobacco, tear it well to pieces, and put it into a vesssel and pour to it a sufficiency of boiling water...."
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