roll-your-own

American  

[rohl-yer-ohn] / ˈroʊl yərˌoʊn /

noun

1. a cigarette that one has rolled oneself.

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roll-your-own British  

noun

1. informal  a hand-rolled cigarette

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Etymology

Origin of roll-your-own

First recorded in 1975–80

Example Sentences

At one point, it was funded in part by a tax on roll-your-own cigarette machines.

From Los Angeles Times

House Democrats included legislative language that would double the existing excise tax on cigarettes, small cigars and roll-your-own tobacco, as well as imposing taxes on any non-tobacco nicotine products, like e-cigarettes.

From New York Times

Congress in 2009 empowered the FDA to regulate tobacco, but it has taken nearly a decade for the agency to advance toward the most promising avenue of regulation — requiring cigarette manufacturers, as well as those of substitutes such as roll-your-own and pipe tobacco, to substantially reduce the amount of nicotine in their products.

From Washington Post

As Leary is transferred from one prison to another in the opening pages, we pan over all that he carries with him: “two packs of Bugler roll-your-own cigarette tobacco, two ballpoint pens, and rubber shower shoes that are a goodbye present from a murderer he met in another state facility.”

From New York Times

The e-cigarette tax was part of a broader package of tax increases spanning digital downloads, smokeless tobacco, roll-your-own tobacco and tobacco cigarettes negotiated this past summer to plug a nearly $2 billion deficit.

From Washington Times