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A slang term for cigarette. Used mainly in Australia but sometimes New Zealand.

"Oi ranga!" "Yer mate?" "Passus a durrie would ya!"

Cigarette, Australian saying, commonly used in Queensland, sometimes not understood in other parts of Australia. Spoken by the bevan, who carries in the other hand a stubbie of XXXX, Tooheys or VB

Hey bloke, can I scab a durrie off you?

An Australian slang term for a cigarette, usually a rollie.

may I buy a packet of durries, cheers mate?

A packet of cigarettes or more than one single cigarette. The origin is unknown but the word has been in use since the 1940s.

"Mate, can you buy us a pack of durries?"

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Smoking a durrie refers to a cigarette. During the 1st world war, ANZACs , particularly the Australian Light Horse, trained in Egypt before deploying to the Dardanelles. While training they had some time off in towns, where they could buy souvenirs and comfort items like tobacco. Tobacco was sold in the market place, and displayed on carpets, called dhurries. If you got to the market at the end of the day, and bought the last of the tobacco, they sometimes got some carpet fluff mixed in with the tobacco, and the diggers joked that they were smoking more carpet fluff than tobacco, hence the term smoking a dhurrie. Still used in the Australian army to this day as slang for a smoke= durrie.

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