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 be smoked.

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

[Spanish cigarro, possibly from Maya sik’ar, from sik, tobacco.]

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License

From Spanish cigarro, of uncertain origin; perhaps from cigarra ("cicada") or from Mayan sicar ("to smoke tobacco leaves").

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  • Guitars can be made from cigar boxes. See Free Associations.

    February 4, 2008

  • 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

  • Cigar? Toss it in a can, it is so tragic.

    October 18, 2008

  • 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