Loosies

The drama began just before midnight last Thursday when a Special Operation Lieutenant and several officers were conducting a crack down on the sale of the so-called " loosies " in businesses in the Belmont section of the Bronx, the official said. ❋ Tamer El-Ghobashy (2010)

Require age verification and face-to-face sale and eliminate mail order sales, vending machines, free samples, self-service displays and sale of single cigarettes ( "loosies") and packages with fewer than 20 cigarettes ( "kiddie packs"). ❋ ITY National Archives (1995)

And if a pack is too expensive, retailers here, many of them small operations, also seem more willing than merchants elsewhere to sell "loosies," he said - two cigarettes for $1. ❋ Unknown (2010)

NYPD teams often go from store to store looking for evidence of the selling of "loosies," which are cigarettes sold individually from an untaxed pack, typically for 50 cents. ❋ Tamer El-Ghobashy (2011)

Edit: They are called “loosies” and go for a quarter usually. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Those things: a bottle of rum and a few cigarettes sold individually commonly referred to in the US as “loosies.” ❋ Unknown (2009)

Overpowered David Pocock in showing he is still among the top loosies in the world. ❋ Unknown (2011)

Somehow I read this as a "pack of loosies" and thought, "That's really stupid, loosies don't come in packs, that's why they're called loosies." ❋ Unknown (2010)

Thorn and Tom Donnelly and loosies Richie McCaw and Kieran Read all having magnificent games. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Eight of Read's 13 appearances on the international stage last year were at No8, including the 39-12 drubbing of France in Marseille on November 28 where he partnered Jerome Kaino and McCaw as the All Blacks 'loosies. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Flyhalf Peter Grant had a good game and his backs got plenty of ball from a crisp service from scrumhalf Dewaltd Duvenage with the hard-working loosies Schalk Burger, the tireless Francois Louw and Duanne Vermeulen the heroes in a good pack. ❋ Unknown (2010)

There are some very good loosies in the Crusaders. ❋ Brent Edwards (2010)

Had two goals, one assist and 26 loosies in 15 games last season. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Coetzee's view was that when the Stormers had beaten the Waratahs 27-6 in Round Two of the competition "their loosies might not yet have adapted to the revised [breakdown] laws and it will be a different Waratahs side coming out here". ❋ Unknown (2010)

Africa's loosies will be under pressure to match New Zealand at the tackle breakdown and if getting momentum they will be hard to shake. ❋ Unknown (2010)

The two French loosies (and Mr Woodcock) might have something to say about that ❋ Unknown (2010)