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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
- cigarless adjective
- cigarlike adjective
Word History and Origins
Origin of cigar1
Word History and Origins
Origin of cigar1
Idioms and Phrases
no cigar, 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.
Example Sentences
There’s even the legendary Moto brisket cigar — once exclusive to their catering menu — now available to the public.
Except that Trump doesn’t take brandy or cigars — which ruins the whole fantasy, honestly — and Putin and Xi know better, at this point, than to take Trump seriously.
He posed for photos holding Rolex watches and expensive cigars, and pretending to eat wads of banknotes.
Pop legend Madonna accessorised her cream-colored tuxedo with a cigar, creating an interplay between soft feminine materials and a distinct masculine energy.
My own first summer job as a kid in search of after-school pocket money was picking cigar tobacco on a Connecticut farm just north of Hartford.
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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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