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DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

Entry from the DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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n. pl.

fine-cut tobacco and paper with which to roll one's own cigarettes.

See: makings,roll(def. 1)

Quotations

1956

The tobacco was medium cut, suitable for pipe or the "rollings."

1965

[Headline] "Rollings" are Safer . . . Dr. E. R. Threthewie . . . said . . . that home-made cigarettes burn at a lower temperature . . . [which] reduces the amount of cancer-producing substances produced.