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coffin nail
noun as in butt
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The second day I was there I lighted a coffin-nail before one of the older officers.
Why, thankee, I've been aching for just a good old coffin-nail.
One nail drives out another, it's true; but the worst nail you can employ is a coffin-nail.
I might have been inclined, myself, to regard a coffin-nail as the deadest piece of ironmongery in the trade.
Later, I had a ring made of the coffin-nail, and I still wear it on the fore-finger of my right hand.
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On this page you'll find 6 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to coffin nail, such as: fag, smoke, tobacco, cancer stick, and cig.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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