British informal term for tobacco or cigarettes.
Shortened from 'tobacco' with informal British slang reduction; emerged as casual British English in the 19th-20th century.
British English invented tons of nicknames for things by just shortening words—baccy, brekkie, telly—it's like texting before texting existed, showing how language changes for convenience.
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