filter tip

1. 1.

   an air filter on the end of a cigarette; contains material that filters the smoke

   Broaderair filter

   Part offilter-tipped cigarette

Questions about filter tip

What does filter tip mean?

filter tip means "an air filter on the end of a cigarette; contains material that filters the smoke".

Is filter tip a common word?

filter tip 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.