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Definition of Cigarette butt
1. Noun. Small part of a cigarette that is left after smoking.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Cigarette Butt
Literary usage of Cigarette butt
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Sanitary Code, 1911: With Amendments and Additions Up to and Including July by Chicago (Ill.). (1916)
"... or public building, in the city, any cigar or cigarette butt or stump, or the
waste, unused or unburned portion of any cigar, cigarette or tobacco. 737. ..."
2. Europe Revised by Irvin Shrewsbury Cobb (1914)
"... in imminent peril of then- lives, while one lighted his cigarette butt from
the cigarette butt of his friend; a handful of roistering soldiers, ..."
3. A Lifelong Passion: Nicholas and Alexandra: Their Own Story by Andrei Maylunas (2005)
"We also asked them to estimate their cigarette butt lengths from a visual model
and to collect all cigarette butts over the next 24 h and mail them to us. ..."
4. Preventing Tobacco Use Among Young People: A Report of the Surgeon General by M. Joycelyn Elders (1997)
"... executives joke about "getting" smokers Disgusting look of a cigarette butt
in the mouth Smoking makes your clothes smell Smoking £or animals and people ..."
5. The Best Plays by Burns Mantle, Louis Kronenberger (1899)
"That Judy I Then she discovers a cigarette butt. "My God, she's starting to smoke!"
she wails, picking up the cigarette and starting for the girls' room. ..."
6. In Praise of Film Studies: Essays in Honor of Makino Mamoruby Mark Howard Nornes, Mamoru Makino, Aaron Gerow by Mark Howard Nornes, Mamoru Makino, Aaron Gerow (2001)
"One of the bums immediately picks up the butt and says "The world has changed,
if even that gentleman needs to come here" while lighting the cigarette butt. ..."
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