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There is only one thing worse than being Gosho, and that is not being Gosho Started conversation Aug 19, 2013
The World's End Beer Dinner
http://drafthouse.com/movies/the-worlds-end-beer-dinner/austin
"Gary King, a 40-year old man trapped at the cigarette end of his teens"
Okay, I know you can't say 'fag-end' in America, but don't use 'cigarette', it just doesn't work.
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KB Posted Aug 19, 2013
No, it just doesn't. 'Dog-end' would work, though. Do Americans use that term or is that just over here too?
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KB Posted Aug 19, 2013
A brief Google seems to suggest that's mostly a UK usage, too. Including an American who's baffled by the term appearing in a Jethro Tull song.
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There is only one thing worse than being Gosho, and that is not being Gosho Posted Aug 19, 2013
Nope, dog-end is unknown here, but Americans call these nasty things cigarette butts, so 'butt-end- would seem like a good alternative. Maybe they just had some British-written copy with fag-end in it and simply substituted cigarette for fag.
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fluffykerfuffle Posted Aug 20, 2013
hmmm... i am an american and i know what a dog-end is and have for 45 years...
learnt it in haight-ashbury 
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