Marlboro
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English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Simplified spelling of Marlborough.
Proper noun
[edit]Marlboro
- A place in the United States, including:
- A township in Monmouth County, New Jersey.
- A hamlet and census-designated place in the town of Marlborough, Ulster County, New York.
- A US brand of cigarette.
Noun
[edit]Marlboro (plural Marlboros)
- A cigarette of the Marlboro brand.
- 1985, J. G. Thirlwell (lyrics and music), “The Throne of Agony”, in Nail, performed by Scraping Foetus Off the Wheel:
- Chalk up another frozen pizza
Choke up another thousand Marlboros
Anything goes for them ordinary Joes
They'll cut off your face to spite your nose
- 2005, Arman Ordian, Norman Freedberg, Batya: The Russian Godfather[1], page 315:
- Arthur took out the pack of Marlboros that he bought from them, and dropped it on the desk. "This one is a fake, and a good fake." He started to show Alex the small boxes on the sides of the ripped pack.
- 2013, Mike Johnson, A Season Forgotten[2], page 191:
- Patricia Florca, wearing black market Levis and a dark blue, collarless shirt, snapped open a Ronson lighter and put flame to a black market Marlboro. Lidia Cozma looked enviously at the cigarette's glowing tip.
"Want one?" Patricia whispered. Lidia nodded and Patricia offered the pack. Lidia removed a Marlboro, and moments later both women were sending exhaled smoke toward a cloudless sky.
Derived terms
[edit]Categories:
- English lemmas
- English proper nouns
- English uncountable nouns
- en:Places in the United States
- en:Townships
- en:Places in New Jersey, USA
- en:Villages in New York, USA
- en:Villages in the United States
- en:Census-designated places in New York, USA
- en:Census-designated places in the United States
- en:Places in New York, USA
- English nouns
- English countable nouns
- English terms with quotations
- en:Smoking