to hurry up; to work or move faster; (pronounced like lead pencil)
This expression can probably be loosely interpreted as removing dead weight from a vehicle so that it can travel faster.
1. Got the lead out is an old expression that means that a person (or group of people) hurried up., as if they had lead in their pants, pulled the lead out so they could run faster or whatever... and finally hurried up.
2. Once the runnergot the lead out he went up from last place to third place. Like he was running for his life. What a comeback, it was AMAZING!
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'