"cancer stick" meaning in English

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Noun

Audio: En-au-cancer stick.ogg [Australia] Forms: cancer sticks [plural]
Etymology: In reference to the link between smoking and lung cancer. Head templates: {{en-noun}} cancer stick (plural cancer sticks)
  1. (slang) A cigarette. Tags: slang Categories (topical): Smoking Synonyms: coffin nail Translations (humorous: cigarette): kræftpind [common-gender] (Danish), kankerstaaf [masculine] (Dutch), syöpäkääryle (Finnish), kreftpinne [masculine] (Norwegian Nynorsk), ра́ковая па́лочка (rákovaja páločka) [feminine] (Russian), giftpinne [common-gender] (Swedish)

Inflected forms

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