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n. - (a piece of) a substance that burns easily and can be used to start a coal or coke flame.

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  • Failure to act against foreigners who are stretching public services, he added, would be handing a "firelighter" to Britain's small but rabidly anti-immigrant political...
  • I call forth the firelighter but the arsonist breaks through and he is I.
  • It's the conversational firelighter that sees you through a sputtering 0-0 draw at The Hawthorns.
  • Reports suggest that after speaking to the FT Beverly Hughes was heard to say to her advisor, "have you got a spare tenner I can use as a firelighter please?"
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