rolling paper

Thân thiện

A person carefully rolls tobacco into a rolling paper on a clean table.

Definition

1. Noun:
   • A thin, strong, and porous sheet of paper, specifically designed to be filled with tobacco or other smoking herbs and then rolled by hand to form a cigarette.

Usage

• Rolling paper is a countable noun. You can have one rolling paper or many rolling papers.
• It is the key material for hand-rolling cigarettes, often used with a filter tip.
• The paper's specific qualities—its strength, even burn, and porosity—are what define it and differentiate it from other papers.

Examples

• Noun:
  • He carefully laid the tobacco along the crease of the rolling paper.
  • I need to buy a new pack of rolling papers; I've run out.
  • The quality of the rolling paper affects the smoothness of the smoke.

Advanced Usage

• The term is almost exclusively used in the context of hand-rolling cigarettes for personal use. It is a standard item in tobacco shops.
• "To roll a paper" is a common verb phrase meaning to use a rolling paper to make a cigarette.
  • She expertly rolled a paper in under thirty seconds.

Variants and Related Words

• Cigarette paper: A direct synonym for rolling paper.
• Rolling: (gerund/participle) The act of making a cigarette using a rolling paper.
  • He was rolling his own cigarette.

Synonyms

• Cigarette paper
• Rizla (a common brand name often used generically in some contexts)

Related Phrases

• Roll your own (RYO): A category of tobacco products and accessories for making cigarettes by hand.
  • He prefers roll your own tobacco because it's less expensive.

Học thuật

Noun

1. a strong tissue paper that burns evenly and is sufficiently porous to control the burning of the tobacco in a cigarette

Từ đồng nghĩa

• cigarette paper