noun General Slang

snout

· noun · geordie

Prison and working-class British slang for a cigarette.

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A cigarette. Spread from British prison slang (where snout has been the unofficial currency for over a century) into general working-class use across the North East and beyond. Often heard in tap us a snout — give us a fag.

“Gan on, lend us a snout till payday.”
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Also old British underworld slang for a police informer — someone who noses into business that isn't theirs. Less common in Geordie use, but still in the wider slang dictionary.

“Watch what you say round him, he's a snout.”
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Tobacco inside a British nick. For decades the unofficial currency of the wing — debts, favours, protection, all priced in pouches and rollies. The 2018 smoking ban knocked it sideways but vapes and contraband tobacco kept the trade alive.

“He owed half an ounce of snout to three different lads on the wing.”
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snout In A Sentence

Gan on, lend us a snout till payday.
Watch what you say round him, he's a snout.

Origin & Usage

Believed to come from 19th-century prison slang — possibly because inmates would sniff/snout at tobacco hidden by warders, or simply from the nose-related rolling motion.

Variants snouts
Tags #geordie#british#smoking#slang#prison

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