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Snout
This is a common term for tobacco or cigarettes in London and the South of England.Checking it out I found this:snout - tobacco. A prison term. Derives from the fact that the smoking of banned tobacco...
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Haven't heard it...people working in prisons must have been pretty dumb not to notice the smoke coming from the guy rubbing his nose!!
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I've not heard it either, but I can address berekah's remark. Guards are often behind glass and/or pretty far away from the prisoners and so it is only the motion of the hand coming to the mouth to...
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Right on the money, Daffy. According to Chambers: 1. [late 19C+] tobacco, thus (prison) "snout baron", one who controls the clandestine sale of tobacco, the prison 'currency', "snout day", the weekly...
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