clicker
n.— «Clickers, also known as clickums, are ordinary cigarettes dipped in formaldehyde, a preservative used as an embalming fluid. The cigarette is smoked after the chemical has evaporated and the cigarette is dry.» —“Use of ‘clickers’ a growing drug abuse problem” by Tim Talley Baton Rouge Morning Advocate Oct. 13, 1986. (source: Double-Tongued Dictionary)
Further reading
Barbara Kingsolver’s book Demon Copperhead is a retelling of Charles Dickens’ David Copperfield set in today’s Appalachia. Martha shares memories of a long-ago visit to Kingsolver’s family farm in Virginia, where they...
When Marilyn from Boston, Massachusetts, used the expression Them’s the berries! with neighbors in her hometown of nearby Arlington, Massachusetts, she was surprised they were unfamiliar with it. The phrase means something like “That’s...