a gathering of friends with the common goal of story telling and boose drinking, emphasis being the story telling aspect. typically guests bring a bottle (or several) of wine, and tell a story whilst their bottle is being passed around the table. and from personal experience, it's best to be one of the first to tell a story...no one is paying attention by the 4th or 5th story/bottle of wine :)
it is believed the phrase originated in boston.
Cigarette: Northern slang for a cigarette, used oft by mashed up mancunian ravers becasue of the resemblance of a hot(electric)stove to the end of a lit cigarette. Originated circa 1991 in the early halcyon days of the rave culture; we speculate during a drug fuelled hallucination by said manc.
'fuck me noel, i am bolloxed, is that a ciggy in your mouth, or the stove from me 'nans kitchen'/
General use: 'Give us a stove you cunt'