coffin nail

noun

, Slang.

1. a cigarette.

coffin nail

noun

1. See cigarette
   a slang term for cigarette

Word History and Origins

Origin of coffin nail¹

First recorded in 1885–90

Example Sentences

The second day I was there I lighted a coffin-nail before one of the older officers.

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Why, thankee, I've been aching for just a good old coffin-nail.

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One nail drives out another, it's true; but the worst nail you can employ is a coffin-nail.

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I might have been inclined, myself, to regard a coffin-nail as the deadest piece of ironmongery in the trade.

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Later, I had a ring made of the coffin-nail, and I still wear it on the fore-finger of my right hand.

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