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durry
A cigarette, especially a roll-your-own.
In a sentence
He stepped outside for a durry.
Where it came from
ABC explicitly discusses durry as quintessentially Australian cigarette slang; ANDC correspondence records evidence from the early 1940s and treats its origin as uncertain.
- Initial era
- 1950–1999
- Where used
- Australian use; no narrower regional pattern established