fag packet
British English for a cigarette packet — the small cardboard box that holds a pack of cigarettes.
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British English for a cigarette packet — the small cardboard box that holds a pack of cigarettes. 'Fag' is standard informal British slang for a cigarette with no offensive connotation in UK usage. The phrase also appears in 'back-of-a-fag-packet' calculations, meaning a quick, rough estimate jotted down with minimal care or precision, often used to critique a plan as underthought or improvised.
He pulled out a crumpled fag packet and wrote down the figures on the back like that constituted a business plan.
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(UK, informal) A cigarette packet.
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British colloquial term for a car's cigarette lighter — the little electric socket in the dashboard originally designed to heat a small metal lighter for lighting cigarettes. In UK English, 'fag' simply means cigarette, making 'faglighter' a totally mundane compound word. As fewer people smoke, the term is fading, but older Brits still use it casually. The socket itself lives on as a power port for charging devices, even if the lighter is gone.
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(UK, Ireland, colloquial) Without a cigarette.
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(UK, Irish, Ireland, slang, colloquial) The butt of a cigarette.
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The butt of a cigarette.