cancerette

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

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noun

Derogatory; Slang

"Moreover, so far as I know, only one public authority has started an official campaign to draw the attention of the population to the danger of death from what the Americans call the cancerette."
"'Have some Widows' Mourners, my silent friend. Or a Cancerette.'"
"The man in the white-lab coat, Dr. Charles Detrick, stubs his half-smoked cancerette in the smaller of the two sinks"

Blend of cancer + cigarette. First use appears c. 1953 in the The Country Gentleman.

cancerettes (plural)

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