Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A compact roll of tobacco leaves prepared for smoking.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A cylindrical roll of tobacco for smoking, pointed at one end for insertion into the mouth and cut at the other for lighting.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A small roll of tobacco, used for smoking.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun
Tobacco , rolled and wrapped with an outer covering of tobacco leaves, intended to besmoked .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a roll of tobacco for smoking
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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In the Island of Cuba that which we call a cigar is called a _tabaco_ (a tobacco) and when it is required to discriminate between the manufactured and unmanufactured article it is called _tabaco torcido_, or rolled tobacco.
Tobacco; Its History, Varieties, Culture, Manufacture and Commerce E. R. Billings
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Follow up with a fine cigar from the San Andres Valley and a good cup of Soconusco cafe.
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Boys, sometimes a cigar is just a cigar, and you should get your minds out of the gutter.
The Volokh Conspiracy » Kagan and the Cult of Personality 2010
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Boys, sometimes a cigar is just a cigar, and you should get your minds out of the gutter.
The Volokh Conspiracy » Kagan and the Cult of Personality 2010
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I hope that you are not that type of person, Jeff, but I also hope that you can understand that sometimes a cigar is just acigar.
The Volokh Conspiracy » Enough with the Ridiculous Hyperbole! 2010
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Follow up with a fine cigar from the San Andres Valley and a good cup of Soconusco cafe.
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He paused to help himself to a cigar from the box on the table and to light it with a steady and defiant hand.
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Follow up with a fine cigar from the San Andres Valley and a good cup of Soconusco cafe.
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Follow up with a fine cigar from the San Andres Valley and a good cup of Soconusco cafe.
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I hope that you are not that type of person, Jeff, but I also hope that you can understand that sometimes a cigar is just a cigar.
The Volokh Conspiracy » Enough with the Ridiculous Hyperbole! 2010
mollusque commented on the word cigar
Guitars can be made from cigar boxes. See Free Associations.
February 4, 2008
treeseed commented on the word cigar
Have you ever had a bubblegum cigar? My favorite are the yellow banana flavored ones that sold for 5 cents when I was a kid.
February 4, 2008
bilby commented on the word cigar
Cigar? Toss it in a can, it is so tragic.
October 18, 2008
hernesheir commented on the word cigar
This word meant "Cannot be had under any circumstances" in the abbreviated jargon of railroad telegraphers. --US Railway Association, Standard Cipher Code, 1906.
January 21, 2013