cigarette girl

English

Cigarette girl at a restaurant in Sweden, 1940

Noun

cigarette girl (plural cigarette girls)

1. (chiefly historical) A woman employed to sell cigarettes, sometimes cigars, and other related items.
   • 1999, Colson Whitehead, The Intuitionist, Fleet (2017), page 148:

     Once in a while, with greater frequency as the night stumbles on, one of the inspectors makes a clumsy grab for one of the cigarette girls, who are as a group blonde and young and endowed by the Creator with exceptional breasts or legs, but never both.

   Synonym: candy girl

See also

• betel nut beauty