Definitions

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  • noun a thin, often flavored, Indian cigarette made of tobacco wrapped in a tendu leaf

Etymologies

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From Hindi बीड़ी (bidi).

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Examples

  • This young 'beedi'-roller thus ends up being deprived of a proper education, on the one hand, and welfare benefits, on the other - Although she works of Jai Hind Beedi, a local manufacturing unit, she is not on its rolls.

    NewsBlaze.com Current News - Top Stories 2009

  • The most common work in the forests of Chhattisgarh is subsistence farming and the gathering and selling of leaves for Indian "beedi" cigarettes -- a job that brings in a meagre

    Raw Story 2010

  • May 4, 2010 at 9:07 am iz a kitteh wiff big teef an fluffy tale. liddle eerz an beedi ais. but dey iz wunderfil wilde fings.

    What you - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger? 2010

  • The government said that former Union health minister Anbumani Ramadoss had lied when he alleged the minutes of the GoM (Group of Ministers) meeting on the issue of pictorial health warnings on cigarette and beedi packs had been altered due to pressure from tobacco and cigarette manufacturers and to benefit the tobacco industry.

    India News Digest: Delhi Goes to Polls Tomorrow; 160 Aspirants in Fray 2009

  • We called him Bapaji, and I remember him squatting on his haunches in the street near sunset during Ramadan, his face white with hunger and rage as he puffed on a beedi.

    The Hundred-Foot Journey Richard C. Morais 2008

  • We called him Bapaji, and I remember him squatting on his haunches in the street near sunset during Ramadan, his face white with hunger and rage as he puffed on a beedi.

    The Hundred-Foot Journey Richard C. Morais 2008

  • Right after the strong and effective guidelines to stop tobacco industry interference in health policies were adopted by the government representatives of 160 countries including India, the pictorial warnings on all tobacco products that were supposed to become mandatory from 30 November 2008 in India, were, again delayed "" reportedly due to hectic lobbying by the industry allies and other entities like the beedi growers 'association.

    Another blow to enforcement of tobacco control policies in India 2008

  • We called him Bapaji, and I remember him squatting on his haunches in the street near sunset during Ramadan, his face white with hunger and rage as he puffed on a beedi.

    The Hundred-Foot Journey Richard C. Morais 2008

  • We called him Bapaji, and I remember him squatting on his haunches in the street near sunset during Ramadan, his face white with hunger and rage as he puffed on a beedi.

    The Hundred-Foot Journey Richard C. Morais 2008

  • It runs between the beedi manufacturers, the Naxalites and the government.

    ‘The problem in Chhattisgarh is not Naxalism. It is the administration’ Abhay N 2007

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