The social process whereby societies achieve an advanced stage of development and organisation; a society in an advanced state of social development ; the quality of excellence in thought and manners and taste.
Refined dining is said by some to be the epitome of civilisation and then there'sMcDonalds.
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'