What is another word for lighters?

Pronunciation: [lˈa͡ɪtəz] (IPA)

Lighters are devices used to produce flames for lighting cigarettes, candles or igniting gases. Synonyms for the word lighters include butane torches, matches, cigarette lighters, and flint lighters. One can also opt for an electric lighter or a plasma lighter that uses a high-electric voltage to ignite substances. A Zippo lighter is a popular brand that is refillable and uses lighter fluid. Additionally, there are windproof lighters, waterproof lighters, and even solar-powered lighters. Regardless of the type of lighter used, they all serve the same purpose - to create a flame for lighting up.

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Usage examples for Lighters

It is down the river, you know, that all the lumpers drop with the lighters they go adrift in from ships' sides.
"The Frozen Pirate"
W. Clark Russell
He glanced at it, then tore it neatly and with careful deliberation into strips, and folded them into lighters.
"The Furnace"
Rose Macaulay
Fill all those lighters, you know.
"Command"
William McFee

Famous quotes with Lighters

  • I'm a heavy smoker. I go through two lighters a day.
    Bill Hicks
  • I'm not really a heavy smoker any more. I only get through two lighters a day now.
    Bill Hicks
  • Now we were the very good malchicks, smiling good evensong to one and all, though these wrinkled old lighters started to get all shook, their veiny old rookers all trembling round their glasses, and making the suds spill on the table. 'Leave us be, lads,' said one of them, her face all mappy with being a thousand years old, 'we’re only poor old women.'
    Anthony Burgess
  • How much do you smoke a day sir? Pack! What a little puss. Gosh, why don't you just put a dress on and show it all to us while you smoke your little faggoty pack. C'mon, swish around for us. Damnit that pisses me off. I go through two lighters a day, dude. I'm starting to feel it.
    Bill Hicks
  • How much do you smoke, sir? Two packs a day, is that right? Pussy. I go through two a day. That's right, two lighters! You're a health nut compared to me. You're like the Jack LaLanne of smokers compared to me.
    Bill Hicks

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