cheroot
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9.9
- noun
- /ʧəˈrut/
:
cherut
- "I have a question," he said, speaking mouthfuls of thick smoke, then finishing off the cheroot and killing it under his boot tread.
- smoking a cheroot
- lighting a cheroot
- cheroot stub
Examples
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Chewing an unlit cheroot, Viking Bob pulls up next to Mitchell and LeMalle in the trappers' jeep.
Fiction book (1993) -
If you've got a spare cheroot, send one along with the boss, will you?
Fiction book (2002) -
So when you see him drive by With that big cheroot
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When Blackboots arrived, he was ready with a cheroot.
Fiction book (2002) -
The colonel paused to draw on a long cheroot.
Fiction book (1993) -
Arnaud pulled at his cheroot and flipped it over the edge of the board floor.
Fiction book (1993) -
Tiger Man handed him a couple of cheroots, picking them out of a plastic bag that had a picture of Rambo on it.
Fiction book (2002) -
Tiger Man handed some over and then, puffing on his own cheroot, settled down to daydream, his eyes following the smoke as it spiraled into the air.
Fiction book (2002) -
Tiger Man was sitting cross-legged on his bed, puffing contentedly at his cheroot, but the boy could find nowhere to rest his gaze; it kept returning to the sullenly sooty ceiling.
Fiction book (2002) -
The gambler put a thin black cheroot in his mouth and snapped a match to life with his thumbnail.
Synonyms
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2.4
A roll of tobacco leaves that you smoke
Compounds
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Surface Forms
Etymology
The word cheroot comes from an Indian word curuttu meaning 'to roll'. So a cheroot is easy to remember as a simple rolled cigar with both ends cut flat.