fig

DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

This entry may contain outdated or offensive information, terms, and examples.

a plug of tobacco, especially chewing tobacco, probably so called because it resembled a slab of dried figs.

Quotations

<i>a</i>1836

How are you off for tobacco? said Mr. Slick. Grand, said he, got half a fig left yet.

1880

The stakes were small, usually a fig of tobacco.

1956

"All I can offer you right now is a chaw off my fig o' tobacca."