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[ si-gahr ] SHOW IPA
/ sɪˈgɑr / PHONETIC RESPELLING
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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.
Idioms for cigarno 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.
Origin of cigar First recorded in 1625–35, cigar is from the Spanish word cigarro
OTHER WORDS FROM cigar ci·gar·less, adjective ci·gar·like, adjective Words nearby cigar Cienfuegos, C.I.F., c.i.f.c.i., CIFE, cig, cigar , cigarette, cigarette beetle, cigarette card, cigarette drain, cigarette end
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Example sentences from the Web for cigar Calloway later posted an Instagram shot with the bottle and a cigar to thank him.
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And he smiled and touched his cigar and his hat and finally patted the girl who worked nights on the bottom.
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So rich and delicious, so dark and layered with coffee and hazelnuts, toffee, orange peel, cigar box.
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His cigar had gone out; he relit it from the candle on our table, puffing great gray clouds of smoke.
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Stay for Madonna smoking a cigar and actually talking with an American accent.
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Fenton led the way into the smoking-room, selected a couple of chairs in the further corner, then held out his cigar case.
People of Position | Stanley Portal Hyatt
Bryce clipped a cigar and held a lighted match while his father "smoked up."
The Valley of the Giants | Peter B. Kyne
Then he would light his pipe or his cigar and take from the shelf the uppermost copy of the pile of Daily Republicans there.
From Place to Place | Irvin S. Cobb
Baker and Rowe and the others proceeded to the little shop where Miller did a cigar business.
Frank Merriwell's Return to Yale | Burt L. Standish
The Mikado tilted his cigar up to a level with the slant eyes of his mask, and laughed.
The Chase of the Golden Plate | Jacques Futrelle
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British Dictionary definitions for cigar noun a cylindrical roll of cured tobacco leaves, for smoking
Word Origin for cigar C18: from Spanish cigarro, perhaps from Mayan sicar to smoke
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