bigarette

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English

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Etymology

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From cigarette, with the initial "C" replaced with "B" in Blood slang.

Noun

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bigarette (plural bigarettes)

  1. (African-American Vernacular, slang) A cigarette.
    • 2010, Todd Bridges, Killing Willis: From Diff'rent Strokes to the Mean Streets to the Life I Always Wanted, New York, N.Y.: Touchstone Books, →ISBN, page 146:
      "Sure, Billy, I'm a run downstairs to the machine and get me a pack of bigarettes," he said, taking off with his Melody.
    • 2019 December 6, “School Shooters” (1:34 from the start), in Bad Vibes Forever[1], performed by XXXTentacion ft. Lil Wayne:
      Cool kids at school smoke bigarettes / Teens with nicotine or with liquor breath