1) A politically correct euphemism used to describe chronic homeless persons.
2)A term used to cast a positive or sympathetic connotation upon the parasitic and unrespectable criminal lifestyle choice of the American bum.
3)A term used to describe habitual abusers of illegal substances and career beggars or criminals with no permanent residence or legitimate source of income.
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'