A friendly, diminutive slang word for a cigarette — the kind of casual shorthand that makes lighting up sound almost cozy. Widely used across the UK and Ireland, 'ciggy' takes the edge off the clinical 'cigarette' with a conversational familiarity that's been embedded in everyday speech for decades. You'd ask for a ciggy, bum a ciggy, or step out for a quick ciggy — the word just fits naturally into the rhythms of informal chat.
He nipped outside for a quick ciggy before the second half of the meeting started.
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(UK, Irish, slang) A cigarette.
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Regional slang from around the English-speaking world — British, Australian, Irish, Caribbean, Nigerian, Filipino, AAVE, and the hyphenated-English dialects that make the internet sound local.
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