Meaning of roll-your-own | Babel Free

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A type of cigarette made by the smoker by rolling loose tobacco in a rectangle of paper.

Examples

“[…]and when you raise⟳ the 10-cent cigarette, on which you get⟳ the same tax as you do on the higher-priced cigarette, the increase⟳ in roll-your-owns will go right ahead and cause a diminution in consumption due to that higher cost⟳.”

“You remember⟳ that, first of all, you never smoked anything but roll-your-owns? Tasman Gold Cut⟳, and Zigzag rice papers. And you had this neat way of being able to roll a thin tight cigarette without looking at what your fingers were doing.”

“A great many pipe smokers, apart from the many who simply died of old age, seem to have⟳ shifted to roll-your-owns, while a significant proportion of the tailor-made market went to women and younger male smokers.”

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