What is Coffin Nail?
1.
slang term for a cigarette
a coffin nail a day will put you away
2.
Anything that contributes to an early death, particularly....
(N.) Cigarette, usage pre-world war I and still continuing today.
"Whip me a pack of coffin nails to put me to a premature death"
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3.
A child who causes a parent so much grief and pain that he or she will send the parent to the grave soon. It is used by some Chinese parents to scold their disobedient or wayward kids.
I told you a thousand times, stop going out with that boy. How on earth did your mother give birth to a coffin nail like you?
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