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.
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 and Irish slang — Cockney, Scouse, Geordie, Yorkshire, Glaswegian, Brummie, Welsh, West Country, plus Irish English. Centuries of regional dialects feeding into modern British and Irish street talk.
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My phone was dying so I used the faglighter socket with an adapter to charge it on the way to the match.
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(UK, colloquial) A car cigarette lighter.
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