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cigar
[ si-gahr ]
noun
- a more or less cylindrical roll of tobacco cured for smoking, of any of various lengths, thicknesses, degrees of straightness, etc., usually wrapped in a tobacco leaf.
cigar
/ ɪˈɡɑː /
noun
- a cylindrical roll of cured tobacco leaves, for smoking
Other Word Forms
- ·l adjective
- ·l adjective
Word History and Origins
Origin of cigar1
Word History and Origins
Origin of cigar1
Idioms and Phrases
- no cigar, Informal. not being a winning or successful effort, as if not good enough to earn a cigar as a prize:
He made a good try at fielding the ball, but no cigar.
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Example Sentences
Gloating, she poured herself a drink and lit up a cigar.
I had smoked a cigar at a wonderful spot here in Chicago with a guy and we started talking about history and Kenya.
A picture of her taken at a party smoking a cigar with a drink stain down the front of her top, looking intoxicated, is regularly republished.
I drank bourbon over ice and bummed a cigar off a man in a seersucker suit.
The researchers had speared three of them to attach electronic tracking devices about the size and shape of a cigar.
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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
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