death stick
A blunt, darkly humorous slang term for a cigarette, leaning hard into the well-established fact that smoking kills.
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A blunt, darkly humorous slang term for a cigarette, leaning hard into the well-established fact that smoking kills. It's the kind of nickname that anti-smoking campaigners might love and smokers might use ironically about themselves. The term strips away any glamour and gets straight to the point: you're literally holding a small stick designed to lead to your death. Also famously used in Star Wars (Episode II) for a drug-like hallucinogen, giving the phrase a pop-culture second life.
She stepped outside to smoke a death stick and I didn't follow — I quit those things two years ago.
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(slang, derogatory) A cigarette.
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