fuse, noun
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- EnglishShow more Special sense of general English fuse a tube filled with combustible material.
slang
A cigarette.
1977 P.C. Venter Soweto 44They were always looking for some excuse to swing a stick. He couldn’t even light a fuse there. And no booze on the premises, man.
[1979 F. Dike First S. African 38‘Het jy nie fus daar nie?’...‘I’ve got cigarettes, but I won’t bring them to you.’]
A cigarette.
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