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cigarette-holder

cigarette-holder is the alternative form of cigarette holder.

Meaning of cigarette holder

Noun

cigarette holder (plural cigarette holders)

  1. A tube-like device that holds a cigarette or a cigarillo and through which the cigarette or the cigarillo is smoked (mainly to prevent ash from falling onto a smoker's clothes, and nicotine from staining the fingers or gloves, as well as to keep side-stream smoke further from the smoker's eyes).
    • The cigarette holder that uses a plastic cylinder filled with granules of silica reduced the nicotine content by 14 percent and the tar content by 21 percent.1943, Health Yearbook 1954, →ISBN, page 145

Forms of cigarette-holder

pluralcigarette-holders

Questions about cigarette-holder

What is cigarette-holder the alternative form of?
Cigarette-holder is the alternative form of cigarette holder.

Words near cigarette-holder in the dictionary

  1. cigarette papers
  2. cigarette pastries
  3. cigarette pastry
  4. cigarette-boat
  5. cigarette-boats
  6. cigarette-holder
  7. cigarette-holders
  8. cigaretted
  9. cigaretteless
  10. cigarettelessness
  11. cigarettelike

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Adapted from Wiktionary: cigarette-holder (page history and authors); cigarette holder (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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