Carpháge

Borrowed French expression for 'cigarette-holder'. Generally hand-crafted from polished, dark wood or some imitation thereof

"Her carpháge was resting delicately between two fingers at her cheek, and even though the cigarette at the widened tip of the carpháge had been out for several moments now she drew it to her lips and gingerly bit down into the polished wood of the mouthpiece while she waited for my reply."

by Deskomatic23333 March 8, 2015

carthage

a city in present-day Tunisia, but in ancient Roman times it was home to the Carthaginians. The carthage empire extended into spain, much of north africa, corsica, sardina, and sicily. Fought against the Romans in the 3 Punic wars in which they lost in all. The great Hannibal was also a general for the Carthaginians.

Carthage was cool because they had war elephants!

by bleep March 8, 2005

Carthage

the extinct country from which Hannibal came out on elephants and conquered Rome. The Romans got shit scared and defouled Carthage by saying that all carthagians were devil worshippers who threw little babies into pyres.

Hamilcar Burca was the father of a very famous crthagian conqueror.

by Gunkglumb May 20, 2005

Carthage

Carthage (, , Berber: Kartajen, or Karthago, from the Phoenician (meaning new town) refers both to an ancient city in present-day Tunisia, and a modern-day suburb of Tunis. The civilization that developed within the city's sphere of influence is referred to as Punic or Carthaginian. The city of Carthage is located on the eastern side of Lake Tunis across from the center of Tunis. According to Roman legend it was founded in 814 BC by Phoenician colonists under the leadership of Elissa (Queen Dido). It became a large and rich city and thus a major power in the Mediterranean. The resulting rivalry with Syracuse and Rome was accompanied by several wars with respective invasions of each other's homeland. Hannibal's invasion of Italy in the Second Punic War culminated in the Carthaginian victory at Cannae and led to a serious threat to the continuation of Roman rule over Italy; however, Carthage emerged from the conflict at its historical weakest. After the Third Punic War, the city was destroyed by the Romans in 146 BC. However, the Romans refounded Carthage, which became one of the three most important cities of the Empire and the capital of the short-lived Vandal kingdom. It remained one of the most important Roman cities until the Muslim conquest when it was destroyed a second time in AD 698.

Carthage is the enemy of Rome

by guess-zizu September 27, 2009

Carthage, Texas

Shitty ass town where you can’t 6 feet without meeting someone who fucks their cousin

Yee Yee Let’s go to Carthage, Texas

by CoatHangerAbortion April 27, 2019

carthage ny

Carthage is one of the worst schools ive been too. Everyone there either is a dickhead or sucks dickheads. All the girls are hoes/whores and all the guys are gay

Male 1: hey have you seen Theresa lately she looks sick.
Man 2:yeah because she been sucking some dickheads dick.

Man 1: really?
Man 2: yeah man its carthage ny what do you expect for here

by Juanthejuanandonly April 6, 2017

Carthage, IL

Carthage is a tiny-ass farm town in Western Illinois 5 hours from Chicago and 3 hours from St. Louis. It's lily-white, so if you got any color in you besides a red neck, you better not speed, cause that's where the county jail is too.

Unless you from there, ain't nobody got a reason to go to Carthage, IL.

by blueboy54 February 18, 2009