dope-stick

English

Noun

dope-stick (plural dope-sticks)

1. Alternative form of dope stick
   • 1918 March 30, “Advertisement: Cavanders Army Club cigarettes”, in Illustrated London News, volume 62:

     Gee-whiz! Some class to that Dope-Stick.

   • 2013, Ted White, David Bischoff, Forbidden World:

     He signed and pushed away his plate, fitted a dope-stick to his lips, lit it.

   • 2014, Joe Haldeman, All My Sins Remembered:

     There was also a little bag of things evidently dumped from a desk drawer—anonymous stationery, pencil stub, eraser, two dried-out pens, postage stamps stuck together, a half-smoked box of dope-sticks but no matches.

   • 2019, Sewell Ford, The House of Torchy:

     "That listens alluring—some," admits Claire. "But I can't see myself planted ten miles out on an R.F.D. route, even with college-bred help. Pardon me if I light another dope-stick."

Anagrams

• despotick