friction match

Questions about friction match

What does friction match mean?

friction match means "lighter consisting of a thin piece of wood or cardboard tipped with combustible chemical; ignites with friction".

What is another word for friction match?

Close synonyms include match, lucifer. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is friction match a common word?

friction match 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.