cigarette butt

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   small part of a cigarette that is left after smoking

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   Part ofcigarette

Questions about cigarette butt

What does cigarette butt mean?

cigarette butt means "small part of a cigarette that is left after smoking".

Is cigarette butt a common word?

cigarette butt is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.