cigar butt
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4.1
- noun
- /sɪˈɡɑr bʌt/
:
pita de cigarro
- He removed a large cigar butt from his mouth and spat into a wastebasket.
Examples
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Dixon pinched the cigar butt from its plastic holder and ground it under his heel.
Fiction book (1993) -
SPOT thinks on it; relights his cigar butt.
Fiction book (1992) -
Pulls out a cigar butt.
Fiction book (1995) -
- You left cigar butts all over the place.
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Lance crushed the cigar butt.
Fiction book (1990) -
Jim Pierce tossed his cigar butt into the bay, reached over to flick off the television.
Fiction book (1999) -
The office smelled of the cigar butts in the wastebasket and the cracked leather in the chairs.
Fiction book (1991) -
While Charlie fumbled with the projector, I emptied his ashtray of cigar butts.
Fiction book (1991) -
Likewise, close by is the coffee table with an ashtray for the omnipresent cigar butt, a tray for the coffee mug and pencil, and piles of books.
Fiction book (1991) -
After finishing his smoke, he tossed the cigar butt on the ground.
Synonyms
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5.2
The small part of a cigarette left after someone smokes it
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning is directly and transparently derived from combining 'cigar' (a roll of tobacco) with 'butt' (the stub or remnant of a smoked cigarette). This noun-noun compositional pattern clearly denotes the remnant of a cigar and is a common, cross-linguistic way to form such compounds, so a B1 learner who knows both words will understand it.
Etymology
Cigar butt comes from a simple picture: a smoked cigar leaves a small leftover butt, because 'butt' has long meant the 'end' of something. So it means 'the small remaining part of a cigar left after most of it has been smoked'.